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Ravenna · 07-28-2002, 04:04 PM

I agree with you Varda about hte elves in the Hobbit seeming high (elves on acid, now theres a thought!) and I found it quite hard to reconcile the two images of Rivendell when I read LOTR for the first time. I appreciate that the Hobbit was a less 'deep' book than its successor, although it did touch on some things to be explored in more depth in the later books, but the difference seems to be so great as to be almost describing two different races rather than the same race with a fifty-odd year age gap, even allowing for the Bilbo/Frodo difference in viewpoint.

07-28-2002, 04:04 PM	#5
Ravenna Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: witney, oxfordshire Posts: 70	I agree with you Varda about hte elves in the Hobbit seeming high (elves on acid, now theres a thought!) and I found it quite hard to reconcile the two images of Rivendell when I read LOTR for the first time. I appreciate that the Hobbit was a less 'deep' book than its successor, although it did touch on some things to be explored in more depth in the later books, but the difference seems to be so great as to be almost describing two different races rather than the same race with a fifty-odd year age gap, even allowing for the Bilbo/Frodo difference in viewpoint.