Word: tolkien
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Silmarillion, Tolkien...
...Silmarillion, Tolkien...
...here it would leave the reader wondering what all the fuss is about. Sure, little bearded men gamboling through the glades are cute, (bordering on the too-cute), but why would a grown man spend all that time and effort writing about not-so-full-grown people, especially when Tolkien and his hobbit horde seem to have preempted the field? Ignoring possible monetary reasons, it seems Huygen is trying to tell us something here. By attributing to gnomes a host of qualities he sees as lacking in human beings, like peacefulness and non-competitiveness, Huygen is holding the wee folk...
...Silmarillion, Tolkien...
FICTION 1. The Thorn Birds, McCullough (1 last week) 2. The Silmarillion, Tolkien (2) 3. The Honourable Schoolboy, Le Carré (3) 4. Illusions, Bach (6) 5. The Black Marble, Wambaugh (5) 6. Dreams Die First, Robbing (10) 7. Beggarman, Thief, Shaw (9) 8. Daniel Martin, Fowles (4) 9. The Book of Merlyn, White (7) 10. Dynasty, Elegant...