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Old 09-24-2002, 05:08 PM   #7
Evenstar1
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...it stopped being a Faerie-tale and started being an epic.
But littlemanpoet, if the tone hadn't changed, he (JRRT) wouldn't have been able to effectively create the unbelievably-magnificent eucatastrophic ending. (Something, I believe to have read somewhere, that he was specifically shooting-for with LOTR.) Doesn't that, in and of itself, make it the Ultimate Faerie Tale?

[ September 24, 2002: Message edited by: Evenstar1 ]
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