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Old 11-05-2003, 12:02 PM   #11
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Perhaps, Essex, the point of confusion here is that you view the word 'fault' with such negative connotations.

I used the word fault, for example, in conjunction with a metaphor from geography, to suggest that there are places where the differences intrude upon each other.

It seems to me, if I can say this without being thought abrasive, that to fail to see differences in the text would be to not attend closely enough to the reading, to see that Tolkien was attempting to do something with the style.

For me, seeing this difference allows me not to be dismissive of Tolkien but to understand something more or better about Tolkien the writer. I can now see how much he shared the elves's nostalgia and well as the hobbits rootedness in land.
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