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he deserves much more respect than butchering by tired bored lit professors who have some vague degree for an audience of yawning uninterested students.
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Well, I don't know what sort of lit classes
you've taken... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Maybe I just tend to get lucky, in more than the usual sense.
Really, guys, lit class isn't
Mordor. Don't discourage the young from majoring in Engslih. Please?
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In a way though, with increased subjectivity, this may well be part of the charm; explaining all those odd Bombadil fans.
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Odd? You talkin' to me?
It's interesting that you should pick Bombadil as the weak link here, Rimbaud. I've read one article that illustrated its distaste for the LOTR using Bombadil, but having spoken to a variety of people in the subject, it seems that most (myself included) just have a problem with his, um, poetics (I can't read them outloud to my brother without collapsing into hysterics), whereas when someone really wants to rip into the book, they take a shot at Samwise Gamgee, the nature of the Orcs, Arwen, etc. Bombadil disrupts the tone, but charmingly, as you have said, and I think most people tend to recognize that.
[ March 31, 2003: Message edited by: Lush ]