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Old 03-12-2009, 10:55 AM   #11
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Also substitute love, romance, child-rearing, changing nappies, discussing reality with a teenager, life, football, and discussing fantasy for X as well...

Even Steven King, known to be just a little on the verbose side, can't capture *everything*, to everyone's satisfaction and adequate to everyone's experience.
Its still a question of whether one depicts 'X' honestly, not whether one depicts it in graphic detail....

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There are, perhaps, hundreds upon hundreds of allusions in LotR to things British that I as a 'Merican have no appreciation for (like how best to refer to all things British).
Allusions to things English, surely......
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