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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Jul 2019

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Zanzel Melancthones of Trollopulous

      Siri, show me very bad takes that contradict facts in Tolkien's autobiographyhttps://twitter.com/JohnsonJeffro/status/1149739357982478336 …

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,

      Zanzel Melancthones of Trollopulous @JohnsonJeffro
      Fantasy and Science Fiction exists because Edgar Rice Burroughs invented it and created a market for it that was so big it was worth the while of countless numbers of his imitators to create works derivative of his creations. Tolkien and Lewis may not have bothered without him. https://twitter.com/cirsova/status/1149730212982087680 …
      3 replies 0 retweets 21 likes
    2. Zanzel Melancthones of Trollopulous‏ @JohnsonJeffro 12 Jul 2019
      Replying to @MorlockP

      What facts?

      1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Jul 2019
      Replying to @JohnsonJeffro

      he didn't mention ERB as an inspiration, and talked at length about the Germanic and Celtic myths as inspiration

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    4. J. Manfred Weichsel‏ @JonWeichsel 12 Jul 2019
      Replying to @MorlockP @JohnsonJeffro

      Jeffro didn’t say ERB was a literary inspiration. He said that ERB helped create the mass market for fantasy without which Tolkien would not have sold. This computes for me, as Tolkien became popular in the US through a paperback edition put out by ACE, which reprinted old ERB.

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Jul 2019
      Replying to @JonWeichsel @JohnsonJeffro

      he said "Tolkien may not have bothered without him" Tolkien was not driven by market acceptance ; he wrote The Hobbit for his children, and he wrote LOTR as a great myth for Europe. Tolkien was an academic and wrote for himself, for his fellow academics, and for God. >>>

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    6. J. Manfred Weichsel‏ @JonWeichsel 12 Jul 2019
      Replying to @MorlockP @JohnsonJeffro

      he said "Tolkien may not have bothered without him" He was speaking figuratively.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Jul 2019
      Replying to @JonWeichsel @JohnsonJeffro

      "figuratively" means "not literal ; metaphorically" what was the use of "not bothered" a metaphor for?

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    8. J. Manfred Weichsel‏ @JonWeichsel 12 Jul 2019
      Replying to @MorlockP @JohnsonJeffro

      I’m not going to get that deep into analyzing somebody else’s syntax because I think it’s rude but it’s a pretty common colloquialism.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Jul 2019
      Replying to @JonWeichsel @JohnsonJeffro

      You were the one who said it was figurative. He never said that. Since you were confident to say that he DID say it figuratively, not that he MIGHT have said it figuratively, I'm asking YOU what YOU say it was a metaphor for Also * how is it rude? * colloquialism meaning what?

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    10. J. Manfred Weichsel‏ @JonWeichsel 12 Jul 2019
      Replying to @MorlockP @JohnsonJeffro

      You don’t seem to understand what a figure of speech is.pic.twitter.com/uQWLm7G77O

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Jul 2019
      Replying to @JonWeichsel @JohnsonJeffro

      I do in fact understand what a figure of speech is. That's why I asked WHAT WAS MEANT BY IT. So ... can you explain to me what was meant by it ?

      12:42 PM - 12 Jul 2019
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        2. J. Manfred Weichsel‏ @JonWeichsel 12 Jul 2019
          Replying to @MorlockP @JohnsonJeffro

          Why should I say what somebody else meant by their figure of speech? Ask them.

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Jul 2019
          Replying to @JonWeichsel @JohnsonJeffro

          You were the one who said it WAS a figure of speech. You said that quite confidently. I personally think that he meant it literally, and was just wrong. But you defended it as "figurative", so I'm asking you to clarify: how so?

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