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From: nrh@lzwi.UUCP (N.R.HASLOCK)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Tolkien's dwarf names
Message-ID: <269@lzwi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 13:48:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  9 13:48:30 1985
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Keywords: Tolkien, Dwarves
Summary: stories to be read aloud


It seems to me that back when I was living in England and more hyped
on Tolkien than I am now, that there was frequent comments about his
writing technique.

He was a friend of C.S.Lewis and would meet regularly together with
some other literary friends. He would take sections of his current
work and read them to the group who would then criticise. Given the
probaility that all of the group had had 'classical' educations
( i.e. learnt greek from the works of the poets ) is it any wonder
that the stories work well when spoken.

Given that Tolkien's field of expertise was early english literature
which is heavily into alliteration, is it surprising that his style is
also alliterative.
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