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Gibbering Gibbet
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Beyond cloud nine
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Yipes -- what have I done??
OK, I admit, I am at least partially responsible for having set off the debate around terminology, for which I am profoundly sorry. Bethberry is, as so often, entirely correct that we shouldn't get bogged down in a discussion of definitions -- using the correct words is important, sure, but I'd be far more interested in seeing what Tolkien's book does and how it does it, than worrying about what to label it.
So, whether we call Tolkien's style "myth," "allegory," "epic" or "Fred", what's the effect of that style on our interpretation of the whole? In other words -- what Durelin said! In an effort to open this thread up a bit further (and avoid heading once more down the canonicity road. . . ![]() |
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