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08-07-2003, 08:01 AM | #42 |
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I sure hope it's not the overly long descriptions of where the rivers began to flow, or other compass heavy topographical descriptions!
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08-08-2003, 02:16 AM | #44 |
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Well, I don't know about that. I certainly wouldn't want LOTR to be full of lengthy passages on how elven dresses are laced together, with an overly self-conscious Arwen having a four-page inner monologue on the subject of her neckline... like some writers tend to do (cough Robert Jordan cough).
But in all seriousness, I think the reason why I have never thought any of Tolkien's imitators matched up to him - well one of them, anyway - is that Tolkien knew when to quit, and his imitators often don't. I understand your desire to know more about Tolkien's vision of Middle-Earth but I think he was right to put the extraneous material in the Appendices (and to another extent, in what was later published as The Silmarillion).
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08-08-2003, 06:37 PM | #45 |
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I agree with IronParrot. Tolkien gives enough explainations in his writing. If you want more details, read the appendices. They give a lot of information that couldn't be bothered being put in the main book.
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