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04-15-2007, 11:48 PM
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Picked up the first three books yesterday. I've gotten about 60 pages into the first.
Pretty good, I owuld have preferred a map, I like maps of the fantasy worlds to get an idea of the geography. Otherwise, I am enjoying the read. Quick, not too heavily detailed, moves along nicely. I think I'm going to enjoy it.
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"...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160. |
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