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To: Cicero
A recent review suggests that she also drew on the great duel between Hitler and Churchill, displaced for a while by the appeaser Neville Chamberlain.

That's the overall impression I've always gotten from the books - that they are WWII allegories (Lord of the Rings, too).

90 posted on 07/18/2005 9:15:35 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Some people are like gravy, spilled on God's Sunday shirt..." -- Spock's Beard)
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To: Mr. Jeeves; Cicero
That's the overall impression I've always gotten from the books - that they are WWII allegories (Lord of the Rings, too).

OK Enough aleady! T H White Once and Future King, J RR Tolkien LOTR, Richard Adams Watership Down, JK Rowling Harry Potter.
Would you authors stop writing World War II analogies? We get the point. Hitler Bad.

(kidding)

145 posted on 07/20/2005 5:17:33 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Find and cherish your inner Slytherin)
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