[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Harpers and Queen: Philip Pullman on Tolkien and Winterson on JKR

[Sherry Gomes]

I read the Hobbit first, in eighth grade or something, and I was bored silly
with it.  I did read the whole thing but I didn't like it much.  in high
school, my brother recommended that I try LOTR, and I was totally
captivated.  It can be slow in places, but since Tolkien conceived it as a
history of a world, it wouldn't be action all the time.  He never intended
it to be an action story, but rather part of a long history he had
developed, and the story of a difficult quest.  

As far as the editing goes, Tolkien was editing that thing till he died, and
he was upset by many mistakes that got in through the various reprints.  I
believe his son, Christopher, still works with his father's notes, trying to
get everything corrected.

Sherry


-----Original Message-----
From: dumbledore11214 [mailto:dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 9:12 PM
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Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Harpers and Queen: Philip Pullman on Tolkien
and Winterson on JKR




--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, kemper mentor 
<kempermentor at y...> wrote:


snip.
  
> As far as Tolkien, he really could have used a red pen for LotR.  
Did he have no editor at all?  The Hobbit, or there and back again, 
was an excellent read.  Don't get me wrong, LotR is an excellent 
story, but it is a below-average read.


Alla:

Could you please clarify, what do you mean by " excellent story, but 
below-average read"? Did you mean that it was to long or just poorly 
edited? 

When I first read LOTR in russian translation, I could not finish 
it, so boring I found it as a story. Few years later I read the 
original and I was absolutely drawn to the music of the language in 
it. I am not sure I agree with you, if you meant that it was not 
edited well.








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