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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-02-09 02:34 pm

[ SECRET POST #2230 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2230 ⌋

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Notes:

Early because blizzard, not quite sure if power will last.

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[personal profile] cbrachyrhynchos 2013-02-09 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Tolkien staked his entire career on the idea that trying to read fantasy as a window into another culture was a bad way to read it. LotRs and Hobbit make about as much sense in relationship to Medieval history as the works of Shakespeare, which is to say, none at all.

There is a bit of self-insert at work behind Aragorn/Arwen in that he wasn't able to sell Beren/Luthien to a publisher in his lifetime. Thankfully though, he did have enough sense to push most of the A/A material out of the novel and into the appendices.