Here the critic must make a judgment call on each individual allusion’ (pp. ‘For instance,’ she notes, ‘although Tolkien refers on several occasions to Jekyll and Hyde, I do not believe we can take this as definitively establishing that he had read Stevenson’s novel (though it is probable that he did so), because the Jekyll–Hyde dichotomy has become a commonplace. Indeed she has, and in doing so takes admirable care in her method of proof. We were also curious to learn if Ordway had identified more works that Tolkien read which we had not yet taken into account.
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