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In Reply to: Quite simply, it's a yarn for posted by tinear on December 23, 2003 at 05:28:01:
Auden praised LOTR in print (reviews atill at NYT website) and loved the books.It should be obvious that SW, which was aimed at the younger set, ain't in the same league as LOTR, although Lucas certainly borrowed from it freely. The HP books, written for children, are delightful in their way, but the movies suffer from having Chris Columbus at the helm.
Fantastic excess?? Does this criterium then disqualify Wagner's Ring as an adult work as well? It to is a work of "fantasy". Tolkien and Wagner drew from many of the same sources to create their modern myths. (I suggest you read Tolkien's own sessay "On Fairytales", although I know you won't.)
The themes Tolkien treated in LOTR - self sacrifice, ), the futility of despair, the struggle to do what must be done when all hope is lost, the redemptive power of mercy, how power corrupts (and its corollary, how absolute power corrupts absolutely) - these are very much from the "real" world, including JRRT's experiences in WW1.
However, I know your mind is closed on the subject. So let me just add that some people are blind to magic and deaf to enchantment.
So it goes.
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- W. H. Auden didn't think so. - Harmonia 19:53:45 12/23/03 (0)
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