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- From: crosby@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (CROSBY MATTHEW JAMES)
- Subject: Re: Okay, let's get those flamethrowers out of the closet....
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.001929.21007@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- References: <1992Nov18.022441.5742@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <Bxx9DH.F8G@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:19:29 GMT
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- In article <Bxx9DH.F8G@cck.coventry.ac.uk> lsh129@cck.coventry.ac.uk (MIAOW) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.022441.5742@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg) writes:
- >>Am I the only person in the world who 1) reads and discusses fantasy, 2) knows
- >>how to appreciate "real" literature, and 3) has a keenly-honed appreciation
- >>for Western European mythology, but 4) absolutely can't stand anything written
- >>by J.R.R. Tolkien?
- >>
- >>I mean, I appreciate the guy's scholarship and ability, but I *hate* the way
- >>he wrote. Alternately too chatty and too self-consciously epic. And I wish
- >>he hadn't thought he could write poetry....
- >>
- >Ye Gods! I thought I was alone. Truly...
- >Lord of the Rings was a tour de force (sp?), an absolute epic.
- >But... somehow it just left me cold, don't know why.
- >Could've been the characterisation... it looked like he'd spent so long
- >on the historical background etc (and the bad poetry :-) that somehow he
- >forgot to give his most of his characters traits/emotions that the reader
- >could sympathise with.
- >Or maybe it's just me...
- >Or maybe we were'nt supposed to sympathise...:-)
- >
- I think LOTR is the sort of thing that you either love or hate. Try reading
- some essays on it some time, Ursula Le Guins for instance, to get other
- perspectives on it.
-
- Anyway, how about an alt.fan.tolkien? There is no real newsgroup (just one
- mailing list) for the discussion of these subjects, which is imho a pitty.
-
- (I agree about the poetry!)
-
-
- --
- -Matt
- Mere anarchy is loosed upon the net!!!!
- mcrosby@nyx.cs.du.edu or crosby@cs.colorado.edu
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