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Re: OT: Tolkein Non-Fanism

From:Dan Seriff <microtonal@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 1, 2001, 22:18
David Peterson wrote:
> > In a message dated 8/1/01 7:33:39 AM, microtonal@SERICAP.COM writes: > > << > I'm not a Tolkien fan, > > Heresy! A conlanger not a Tolkien fan? Unthinkable! :) >> > > I've tried to read The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring on two > non-consecutive occasions (Simpsons joke), and have failed at both. I made a > serious attempt at the latter just this summer--could not do it! I'd much > rather read Tom Robbins's new book. :) Anyway, I say it's okay to be a > non-Tolkiener on Conlang! Stand with me, brethren; I know ye exist!
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.
> -David
-- Daniel Seriff microtonal@sericap.com http://members.tripod.com/microtonal Honesty means never having to say "Please don't flush me down the toilet!" - Bob the Dinosaur Half of America believes homosexuality is wrong...the same percentage believes that Socrates was a great Indian chief.