What really happened on the tower.

[Ken Hutchinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 155515

Eggplant the 107th, descendent of a long line of illustrious
vegetables wrote:
> 
> 
> In another post Ken Hutchinson, a Tolkien fan and son of Clogknee,
> chief of the Bustalator people who come from across the Onrobonob
> river beyond the Dyphlesator mountains on the planes of Diplet in the
> land of Fustalator near the forest of Sphincter which in the elfin
> tongue is called Whogivesadamn wrote: 
, he wrote
, ah 
 oh dear, I
> seem to have lost my thread, what were we talking about? 
> 
> And now for no particular reason I'm going to sing a long and
> pointless song in a language I know you don't understand because I
> just made it up. Hey, where are you going? Come back, you'll miss my
> song! 
> 
> Eggplant
>

Ken:

To enjoy any work of fiction you have to be willing to suspend your
disbelief. Works of fantasy require more of the reader in this way
than, say, a Jane Austin novel will. I am sorry that you find Tolkien
too comic bookey to enjoy. We all have authors we can't connect with,
try as we might. I happen to enjoy Tolkien as well as Rowling, guilty
as charged. Clearly you don't. 

If you prefer horcruxes to angels, if you prefer latinesque mumbling
(nvbl) to Quenya, if you too believe that every September starts on
Monday and Orion stands proud of the western horizon at 11pm in the
second week of June, then Rowling is your gal. No need to bother with
that Tolkien chap.

I can overlook Rowling's cluelessness with "maths" because she writes
so convincingly and accurately about adolesence, right down to the
fact that girls always get their driver's licenses on the first try. I
can induldge Tolkien his love for language because he manages to
impart some of it to me. To dismiss either LotR or HP as a comic book
is to miss not just your thread, but the point.

So sing away, oh proud and mighty Eggplant! Baggins and Bach have
taught me to enjoy songs in languages I do not understand. Lovegood
and Carroll have taught me to delight in the implausible. Be
forewarned that people who understand Tolkien, people who love
Tolkien, can do a much better sendup of Tolkien than you have shown us
so far....

Ken