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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin
But beyond, that, it creates a notion of Tolkien's word/world creation process which is not only wrong, but explicitly rejected by the man himself (don't the writers own a copy of Letters?)
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Obviously no filmmakers do, or #210 to Forrest Ackerman should have let the previous
LOTR "adapters" know how Tolkien did
not like his work to be treated.
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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin
And, yes, the article confirms that Tolkien's trench-visions include Black Riders arising from German cavalrymen: nonsense both internally and externally, since not only did the Black Riders' conception lie two decades in the future, but there was no German cavalry on the Western Front by 1916; the Germans had converted their troopers to infantry once it became apparent horses had no place in trench warfare.
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Indeed. Cavalry had shown itself only marginally effective in the more open battles of 1914, and had no function in the later war of static lines and artillery barrage.