Fantasy

[obloquy]

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

obloquy...Of course people in Middle-earth had their intestines ripped out, but did we think of that when we first read LotR? If you did, good for you; I didn't.

But you recognize that those things are a certainty, which is my point. I was not saying that a person naturally imagines those details when reading LotR, only that if one considers it, one recognizes that they absolutely do occur given what we know about Middle-earth.