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...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...
FICTION 1. The Silmarillion. Tolkien (1 last week...
...part of Obi-Wan had no such psychological depth, he notes, but he enjoyed it nonetheless. "It had a touch of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings," he says. "It was a rather simple outline of a good man who had some magical powers. I tried to make him uncomplicated. I'm cunning enough now to know that to be simple carries a lot of weight...