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[Will Layman]

I'm not carping or attempting to flame here, just asking a sincere question.

I've seen LORD OF THE RINGS on a couple of lists now, and I'm wondering how
folks on the list approach this work.  I've been reading the books (first
THE HOBBIT, then LOTR -- now on the last book) aloud to my ten year-old son
for the better part of a year (in small, bedtime increments), and I just
want to kill myself just about every night -- with the endless allusions to
other parts of the history of Middle Earth, long numbing asides exploring
characters we'll never see again, etc.

Surely it's all an elaborate and brilliant metaphor for World War One or
something, right?

How can I look at this differently to improve the coming months I will be
spending, between 9:30 and 10:00 PM Eastern, in places like "Minus Morgel"?

He'p me!

Will "The Tolkien Wary" Layman

On 9/16/04 10:54 PM, "Tim Strzechowski" <Dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:

> I missed what the criteria are for our respective lists, so let me focus
> mine on 20th Century fiction.  These are my favorites at the moment (in no
> particular order):
> 
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> 9.  J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
> 
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