Gollum and Eagles: Deux ex machina? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 03-07-2006, 03:31 PM

I'm experiencing dé ja vú here. I think I figured out why:

Complex D.E.M.

"They weren't," says Doug*Platypus.

To my understanding, a "deus ex machina" has to do violence to the story to be so considered. If it doesn't, then you are stretching the term to fit the example. That said, neither the Eagles, nor Gollum's slip are deux ex machinae, for they fit within the whole construction of middle earth. If you're Formendacil, on the other hand, then all of life is a deus ex machina, and it's a moot point. Right, Formy?

03-07-2006, 03:31 PM	#26
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	I'm experiencing dé ja vú here. I think I figured out why: Complex D.E.M. "They weren't," says Doug*Platypus. To my understanding, a "deus ex machina" has to do violence to the story to be so considered. If it doesn't, then you are stretching the term to fit the example. That said, neither the Eagles, nor Gollum's slip are deux ex machinae, for they fit within the whole construction of middle earth. If you're Formendacil, on the other hand, then all of life is a deus ex machina, and it's a moot point. Right, Formy?