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12-07-2008, 05:30 AM | #1 |
Dread Horseman
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You might as well critique Michelango for his failure to depict the "real" human form, or Shakespeare for lying about the way people "really" talk.
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12-07-2008, 07:49 AM | #2 |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Agreed.
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Illustrious Ulair
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So. Is the fact that Tolkien was writing a fantasy novel, set in a 'Secondary' reality, enough of an excuse for avoiding (or at least toning down) the truth - especially when there is a risk of misleading the reader into believing that such things didn't happen? Should a novel about war, whether a 'fantasy' novel or not, honestly reflect the facts about war? Or, as Tolkien himself stated: Quote:
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Or does it? Should it? Should fantasy be the ultimate escape, allowing an author the freedom to do as he wishes with the raw material of the primary world, & with the products of his imagination - he can, if he wishes create a world where the sun in green, where death on a battlefield is clean & neat, or where 'God' is a senile control freak - or absolutely anything he or she wants, because 'its fantasy' & anything is permitted. But not if it 'depends on the sharp outlines of the real world' as Tolkien himself states is vital.
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