I love the way JRRT phrases things. The less conventional word-orders, for example, as in "Death! they cried,
with one voice and terrible". Or, there's a section in RotK, when Pippin's in Minas Tirith (I think it's where Denny's going nuts) and nearly every sentence starts with "and". (aside: I wonder if he was reading Mark's gospel at the time he was writing that?)
I also love the quote, mentioned earlier:
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... had a vision as it were of a great expanse of years behind them, like a vast shadowy plain over which there strode shapes of Men, tall and grim with bright swords, and last came one with a star on his brow.
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Mmmmm... That is such the echo of a song we have not heard, as CS Lewis would say... (would the emoticon for 'joy-in-the-csl-sense' be
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2 more to go:
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The way is shut, his voice said again. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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Here do I swear fealty and service to Gondor ... from this hour henceforth, until my lord release me, or death take me, or the world end.
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Go the italics bits (my italics) which didn't make it to the movies!
