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Loremaster of Annúminas
Join Date: Oct 2006
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"Tolkien might have a better excuse for having wild coincidences advance his plot than most authors."
Like Pratchett's million-to-one chance: according to the rules of Narrative Causality, if you can get the odds of success of something ridiculous pushed up to a million to one, it's guaranteed to work.
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