the problem with gaiman, mieville, and pullman

Thomas Bitterman · 30 Nov 2004, 10:23 · from 2004-November.txt.gz

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From: tom at bitterman.net (Thomas Bitterman)
Date: Tue Nov 30 10:23:45 2004
Subject: (urth) the problem with gaiman, mieville, and pullman
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:

>
>(For me, I think that there's an obvious Moorishness, or perhaps
>Turkishness, to the Calormenes. I suspect you could make a case
>for the "swarthy" Easterlings in LotR, but I also suspect that that
>case would always remain somewhat problematic.)
>
I have a dim recollection that Tolkien mentioned (in a letter to a 
potential publisher) that the
Easterlings were meant to resemble Eastern Europeans.

>--Dan'l
>
Enamel

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