When we had found a bivouack, all pressed round the corpse of the little fellow. Strange, we had so many brave comrades to mourn for, and yet this boy excited our special sympathy.
[I]n a common sailor's life sleep is not a regular thing as we have it on shore, and perhaps that staid glazy and sedate-looking eye, which a hard-worked seaman usually has, is really caused by broken slumber. He is never completely awake, but he is never entirely asleep.
This can be, as you note below, quite fun and entertaining, but I do think that it is very easy for people to lose track of the fact that all of these speculations are just fan fictions that have little to do with what Tolkien actually wrote.
But at the level of technical ensembles of the activity/inertia type, contradiction is the counter-finality which develops within an ensemble, in so far as it opposes the process which produces it and in so far as it is experienced as negated exigency and as the negation of an exigency by the totalised ensemble of practico-inert Beings in the field.
