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Halfir · 05-03-2002, 11:19 PM

Lostgaerial: your comment about LOTR being full of cliches is true - but in a paradoxical sense. Because, in LOTR the cliches work - they fit beautifully into the masterwork that Tolkien crafted and are intentionally there. When we use them they normally jar, or act as a substitute for creative or original thinking, but in the context of LOTR they are as fresh as a morning in spring.

05-03-2002, 11:19 PM	#1
Halfir Animated Skeleton Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Thailand Posts: 41	Lostgaerial: your comment about LOTR being full of cliches is true - but in a paradoxical sense. Because, in LOTR the cliches work - they fit beautifully into the masterwork that Tolkien crafted and are intentionally there. When we use them they normally jar, or act as a substitute for creative or original thinking, but in the context of LOTR they are as fresh as a morning in spring. __________________ I have not fed my readers with straw, neither will I be confuted with stubble