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Old 12-17-2022, 09:25 AM   #5
William Cloud Hicklin
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Originally Posted by Galadriel55 View Post
There will be people saying that this is fantasy, it's not supposed to be realistic
But Tolkien himself would not be among them. His theory and practice of fantasy was founded on establishing the "inner consistency of reality" in the subcreated world- or as he once put it, "Days are days, miles are miles and weather is weather."

If you throw that out, you get Alice in Wonderland... or William Burroughs.
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