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( Spartacus: Blood and Sand--SPOILERS )
On the reading front, I started The Book of Lost Tales, Vol I by J.R.R. Tolkien last night. I've gotten out of the habit of powering through didactic prose since my university days, and this was hard going, especially during the poetry section. I like to hear poetry as read by experienced keepers of meter, but I'm seldom inclined to read it. When heard, I find it inspiring and affecting; when read, I find it so much windy, melodramatic twaddle. I've only read "The Lonely Cottage" thus far, and I preferred the critical analysis thereof to the story itself.
The idea of the Noldor being called Gnomes in original drafts made me think of the potato-assed garden gnomes in the HP series, and that's not an association you want when you're trying to write about tall, beautiful, grave elves skilled in song and art and all manner of craft.
On the reading front, I started The Book of Lost Tales, Vol I by J.R.R. Tolkien last night. I've gotten out of the habit of powering through didactic prose since my university days, and this was hard going, especially during the poetry section. I like to hear poetry as read by experienced keepers of meter, but I'm seldom inclined to read it. When heard, I find it inspiring and affecting; when read, I find it so much windy, melodramatic twaddle. I've only read "The Lonely Cottage" thus far, and I preferred the critical analysis thereof to the story itself.
The idea of the Noldor being called Gnomes in original drafts made me think of the potato-assed garden gnomes in the HP series, and that's not an association you want when you're trying to write about tall, beautiful, grave elves skilled in song and art and all manner of craft.
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