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Old 07-25-2003, 01:18 AM   #5
Gwaihir the Windlord
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And if perchance Middle-Earth does not quite make it past 'a story' for you...
I should say it did for galpsi as well. Why else would he come here? That's why I come here, at any rate. He is quite right -- LotR is a narrative, a story of fiction -- but the seamless invention of the world described in other texts, and upon which LotR is based, are what makes it more than just a story. And as for
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...are there other fictives that do?
[img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] no, of course not. Tolkien is truly incomparable, as you'd agree, lindil? I'm sure galpsi would have too.
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