ot-my mini review of Children of Hurin

David Duffy · 17 Apr 2007, 02:34 · from 2007-April.txt.gz

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From: David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au (David Duffy)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:34:03 +1000 (EST)
Subject: (urth) ot-my mini review of Children of Hurin
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, don doggett wrote:

> I have read in Tolkien's own words (somewhere in his letters which I 
> will search for when I can) that his purpose in writing the Silmarillion 
> and its attendant tales was to produce an alternate mythological history 
> of England. To give the isles their own Iliad, so to speak. This puts
                                           ^^^^^
Aeneid is more like it ;)

Keep up the discussion! Maybe we can circle back to Wolfe by way of _On 
Fairy Tales_, being a Catholic writer, and secondary creation.

David Duffy.

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