Like you,
Alchisiel and
Child I also am baffled by that reference to cartoonish characters--since the review is laudatory. However, I do like
Child's hypothesis that often responses to the movies slip into our thoughts on the books. That act itself suggests how telling is Hands' remark about the future of Middle earth, that over the long march of time there will indeed be a mythology that people relate to, rather than simply "texts."
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Elizabeth Hand
Years from now, when our present day is as remote from men and women (or cyborgs) as the events of the First Age were to the Council of Elrond, people may still tell tales out of Middle Earth. If so, The Children of Húrin will be one of them.
|