A lot of this will be from the Unfinished Tales. I'm dreading the changes that do sneak through.
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Replying to @ThebanMonk @DopJon
Never read UT. I’d assumed it’d be stuff from The Silmarilion, even if not the Quenta itself.
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Replying to @BryanONolan @ThebanMonk
UT is a fantastic read. It’s a really good catch all for the different ages, and his development of the myth (and his own writing style) really shine through. “The Quest for Erebor” might be one of the best things he ever wrote.
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That said, I’m alright with some deviation from the Tolkien orthodoxy. I think it’ll be guarded well enough, and as High Fantasy in the vein of some of his influences, it could probably stand to have some of it fleshed out or softened. 22hr Beowulf isn’t what I’m hoping for tbh.
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Replying to @DopJon @ThebanMonk
I’ll have to pick up UT. Another interesting lookin on his development, particularly of the Silmarillion (book) is in CS Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet, which borrows so terms and ideas from Tolkien’s early cosmology.
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Replying to @BryanONolan @ThebanMonk
I’ve read zero Lewis. I grew up on the teat of post-WW2 sci-fi, and so came upon JRRT in my late 20s. My High Fantasy growing up was Herbert, Clarke, and Gygax.
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Replying to @DopJon @ThebanMonk
Good stuff, that. Lewis’s Space Trilogy is reall just fiction that happens to be set (the first two books, anyway) in space. If you read it, don’t try to turn it into Sci-Fi
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It’s too bad Kilgore Trout wasn’t a real sci-fi writer. I woulda read the shit out of him.
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Replying to @DopJon @ThebanMonk
You e read The Powers if the Earth and it’s first sequel by
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TY !
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I’ll look it up!
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I read Lewis's space trilogy in 4th grade. It's deep stuff and I suspect some of the nuances went over my head, but I think I learned a lot from it and I would love to read it again.
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