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Saxony Tarn · 08-06-2002, 10:42 AM

welcome back to all the returning folks & welcome to all the new faces --

|_|) |_|) |_|) |_|) |_|) <-- here is the next round of AYWSF pints

(and Lila, didn't i e-mail you already? Hoom hoom, must have slipped my mind -- been rather busy lately! my apologies! will get to it right away!)

BTW i've got just a nitpicky question to raise:

We discuss "the temptation to be imitative of Tolkien" -- IN WHAT SENSE?! Writing style? Plot conventions? Using Elves, Dwarves, Orcs and ancient kingdoms? (i mean, Gondor hasn't got a thing on that original Middle Kingdom CHINA, Heck, after 3000 years, Gondor STILL doesn't even have black-powder. Hmm... Boromir with a flint-lock, now that's dangerous. Lurtz wouldn't have stood a chance...) Using Poetry? Creating proprietary languages? (Heck, Star Trek did that for the Klingons, and who's dinged Gene Roddenberry for aping Tolkien?)

Just a curious musing brought on by deprivation of mead... :: raising glass ::

|_|) any takers?

s.t.

08-06-2002, 10:42 AM	#11
Saxony Tarn Wight Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: a western shore Posts: 132	welcome back to all the returning folks & welcome to all the new faces -- \|_\|) \|_\|) \|_\|) \|_\|) \|_\|) <-- here is the next round of AYWSF pints (and Lila, didn't i e-mail you already? Hoom hoom, must have slipped my mind -- been rather busy lately! my apologies! will get to it right away!) BTW i've got just a nitpicky question to raise: We discuss "the temptation to be imitative of Tolkien" -- IN WHAT SENSE?! Writing style? Plot conventions? Using Elves, Dwarves, Orcs and ancient kingdoms? (i mean, Gondor hasn't got a thing on that original Middle Kingdom CHINA, Heck, after 3000 years, Gondor STILL doesn't even have black-powder. Hmm... Boromir with a flint-lock, now that's dangerous. Lurtz wouldn't have stood a chance...) Using Poetry? Creating proprietary languages? (Heck, Star Trek did that for the Klingons, and who's dinged Gene Roddenberry for aping Tolkien?) Just a curious musing brought on by deprivation of mead... :: raising glass :: \|_\|) any takers? s.t. __________________ <-- who, me? Take the Ring? Betray the Fellowship?? Nah -- couldn't be ME, i'm too cute...