Google| Subject | Re: Reading LotR and the newsgroups (was Re: Don't aspire to succeed - that right belongs to America |
| From | Shanahan |
| Date | 08/19/2004 03:07 (08/18/2004 18:07) |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | Troels Forchhammer |
Troels Forchhammer <Troels@ThisIsFake.invalid>declared:
Troels Forchhammer
?jevind L?ng <dnivejo.gnal@swipnet.se>enriched us with:
There's a hint in Letters; in #85, to Christopher away in the RAF in WWII:?jevind L?ngTroels Forchhammer
[GRIN] I suspect you are right. I do wish Tolkien had been able to think up something to add more interest to the story there. Strange that there are only three chapters before "Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit"; they 'feel* like a good deal more.
That's the special beauty and brilliance of these chapters -- they feel the same way to the reader as the journey must have felt to Sam and Frodo: very long and very dreary ;-)
I wish that I was able to say with certainty that this is intentional on Tolkien's part, but it may just be the inevitable result of describing a long, dreary and basically eventless journey (except for some minor, but interesting, developments in the three characters).
"I have been struggling with the dislocated chronology of the Ring, which has proved most vexatious, and has not only interfered with other more urgent and duller duties, but has stopped me getting on. I think I have solved it all at last by small map alterations, and by inserting an extra day's Entmoot, and extra days into Trotter's chase and Frodo's journey (a small alteration in the first chapter I have just sent [to Christopher]: 2 days from Morannon to Ithilien)."
This is rather interesting, because it seems that all he has done is lengthen all three story lines. How would this help in synchronizing events?
Ciaran S. -- Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. - e.g.
08/19/2004
