ot-my mini review of Children of Hurin

brunians at brunians.org · 16 Apr 2007, 11:23 · from 2007-April.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:23:43 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (urth) ot-my mini review of Children of Hurin
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> don doggett skrev:
>> It is not fantasy, except in the
>> sense that the fantasy genre has often been a lesser
>> (though the impulse is understandable) attempt to
>> emulate his work.

> In what way is it not fantasy? It's set in a world that's different from
> ours and is filled with magic and stuff, right? Both the type of
> literature and the word "fantasy" as a label for it existed before
> Tolkien, so I'm unsure why his stuff should be something else.

I believe that what Don is saying is that there are no fantastic elements
in the story, that no incident in the story could not happen in the World
that we know.

That's what I would mean if I said this, anyway.




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