The Tolkien Template - Carrying on the torch of mythology and folklore - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 12-01-2002, 09:15 PM

Sharon, I understand and sympathize with you. If only there was a way to curb the power of the market forces at work in all this, but we live in the country we live in, and the student-product is the all-important commodity in today's people-market. Talk about an impersonal machine! As true as this is, I still think that someone may come who can surpass Tolkien while being indebted to him.

Cudae: I suggest replacing the word "opinion" with "reaction" - that reaction may be reflection, it may be purchase, it may be the forming of an opinion, or it may be an attempt at art. I suppose I can't deny that everyone will probably have an opinion about a given work of art, and to that extent I suppose you're right, but I think there's more to it than that, I guess.

12-01-2002, 09:15 PM	#1
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Sharon, I understand and sympathize with you. If only there was a way to curb the power of the market forces at work in all this, but we live in the country we live in, and the student-product is the all-important commodity in today's people-market. Talk about an impersonal machine! As true as this is, I still think that someone may come who can surpass Tolkien while being indebted to him. Cudae: I suggest replacing the word "opinion" with "reaction" - that reaction may be reflection, it may be purchase, it may be the forming of an opinion, or it may be an attempt at art. I suppose I can't deny that everyone will probably have an opinion about a given work of art, and to that extent I suppose you're right, but I think there's more to it than that, I guess.