Re: OT: Tolkein Non-Fanism

Sorry, this was supposed to go to the list!
Sometimes I "reply" to a message and it
goes to the person instead of the list.

Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net

> > David Peterson wrote:
> No offense intended, of course. I can understand quite well how one
> wouldn't be able to get into Tolkien. His writing style is very dense,
> and I actually had failed attempts to read both the trilogy and the
> Silmarillion. The Hobbit I've read about 7 times over the course of my
> life, and I never get tired of it. To each his own.
 I loved and still love The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings.
 I cannot wait for the film to come out, and Chris and I close our
 eyes during the previews so as not to have any surprises given
away (in this instance, what Galadriel looks like, or Gandalf).  We
want the film to be fresh for us.

 And as a teenager I of course poured over Tolkien's language
 notes with increasing envy, admiration, and despair.  I was
 never, though, able to stomach the Silmarillion.  It reminded me
 too much of Lady Charlotte Guest without the quaint Victorian
 archaisms.  High, serious-minded, sonorous, lacking basically
 in developed psychological tension, a polite eschewal of really
 interesting sexual situations.  Not the case with the real medieval
 romances and sagas that I also adored.  Forgive me!

 Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net