I just finished it tonight.

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hank — 12/6/2017 3:50:47 AM (archived)

I should have kept a notebook, or marked up the book with Majic-Marker. There are beautiful sentences and aphorisms and sayings worth quoting and remembering. There are marvelously constructed paragraphs. But there is no story there.

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Lost in Middle Earth. - hank - 12/3/2017 4:20:24 AM
- Re: Lost in Middle Earth. - podrock - 12/5/2017 10:14:09 PM
  - I just finished it tonight. - hank - 12/6/2017 3:50:47 AM
    - Now that I have a moment... - podrock - 12/6/2017 5:03:04 AM
      - You read it three times before you decided you liked it? - hank - 12/6/2017 4:42:39 PM
        
        It was the third time that I decided I loved it. - podrock - 12/6/2017 9:46:55 PM
        
        Talkin' Tolkien Blues - hank - 12/6/2017 10:35:35 PM
        
        I completely agree. - podrock - 12/7/2017 1:17:22 AM
        
        Samwise Gamgee - hank - 12/7/2017 2:41:34 AM
        
        The Tolkien essay "On Fairy Stories" - hank - 12/7/2017 3:55:19 AM
        
        Yup, me too. - podrock - 12/7/2017 5:10:23 AM
        
        We are qualified to use science fiction as a model for fantasy. - hank - 12/7/2017 3:46:26 PM

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