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peregrine · 11-15-2001, 10:09 PM

To Pippin,
I went back and read the Hobbit just recently, and found it strange i guess, coming back to it after the style of LOTR and the Silm. Being directly addressed by the author/narrator, and all the odd little references was quite strange. Sometimes, especially when dealing with the elves or dwarves there was a grimness, or a deadly seriousness about it too, which worked well against the quaint little story telling style in other parts of the book. And I laughed out loud at some points.

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11-15-2001, 10:09 PM	#17
peregrine Pile O'Bones Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Australia Posts: 25	To Pippin, I went back and read the Hobbit just recently, and found it strange i guess, coming back to it after the style of LOTR and the Silm. Being directly addressed by the author/narrator, and all the odd little references was quite strange. Sometimes, especially when dealing with the elves or dwarves there was a grimness, or a deadly seriousness about it too, which worked well against the quaint little story telling style in other parts of the book. And I laughed out loud at some points.