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To: NYer

Some of us really don’t like fantasy. Even well-written fantasy.


3 posted on 04/27/2016 4:27:00 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: miss marmelstein

And you just had to tell everyone.


5 posted on 04/27/2016 4:41:26 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: miss marmelstein

It’s perfectly fine if it doesn’t appeal to you. But LOTR is probably the best written fantasy ever put down on paper. How it all came from the imagination of an obscure Oxford don, the leading light in an even more obscure field of study (Philology), and became one of the most read and beloved works of fiction for now going past half a century probably counts as a miracle itself. Besides just the scale (I mean how many authors can on their own create several complex mythologies and separate languages within about one thousand pages?) the scenes of war, brutality, and suffering seem true because they came from a man who served several years in the Western Front trenches. So he saw men shot, gassed, and blown to bits but came out to write first an epic children’s fantasy (The Hobbit) and then one which has moved several generations of adults.


13 posted on 04/27/2016 5:27:22 AM PDT by katana
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To: miss marmelstein

I agree.


36 posted on 04/27/2016 7:05:47 PM PDT by Coleus (For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.)
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