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William Cloud Hicklin · 03-22-2008, 09:56 PM

I might suggest that history and fiction are apples and cinderblocks.

A history is not a story, it has no inherent form or structure, it is merely events that happened in the way events do. To make a story of it, whether an historical novel or a play or a film, requires considerable messing around. Nobody faults Shakespeare for rewiting history to suit his dramatic ends- but then nobody (with sense) accepts Will's plays as factual either.

03-22-2008, 09:56 PM	#24
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	I might suggest that history and fiction are apples and cinderblocks. A history is not a story, it has no inherent form or structure, it is merely events that happened in the way events do. To make a story of it, whether an historical novel or a play or a film, requires considerable messing around. Nobody faults Shakespeare for rewiting history to suit his dramatic ends- but then nobody (with sense) accepts Will's plays as factual either. __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.