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Forum: The Books
09-21-2008, 05:58 AM
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rorschach
Actually I think the Mordor/London analogy holds...
Actually I think the Mordor/London analogy holds up well in any case. JRRT was unashamedly provincial in outlook, and there's evidence for his distrust of the centralising tendencies of Whitehall... |
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Forum: The Books
09-18-2008, 08:55 PM
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Replies: 67
Views: 74,957
Posted By
rorschach
Thank you both for replying, and I fully agree...
Thank you both for replying, and I fully agree with 'so far as it goes' Burrahobbit. A work as wide-ranging and complicated as LOTR badly needed a coherent geo-political framework, and it's not... |
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Forum: The Books
09-15-2008, 04:57 PM
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Replies: 67
Views: 74,957
Posted By
rorschach
Better Historical parallels than WWII?Hi Folks This is probably old hat to all old-time Tolkein fans, but I've never understood all the WWII allegory stuff. Tolkein was a professor of medieval languages, steeped in the history of... |
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