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- From: lsh129@cck.coventry.ac.uk (MIAOW)
- Subject: Re: Okay, let's get those flamethrowers out of the closet....
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:17:40 GMT
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- 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...:-)
-
- Cat.
-
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