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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Speaking as a PratchettDwarf cuntstain, I thought 'hold on, Tolkein's goblins are not really individual characters. Why would he be introducing 'another' one, to the annoyance of Lewis?'
*adjusts Simpsons tie*
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 15:46, 1 reply, 15 years ago)
the reason his famous books focus so much on the plight of hobbits, and reduce the goblins to an anonymous horde, is because of the terrible slight he suffered at the acid tongue of a slightly intoxicated Lewis. Perhaps he decided from that evening on that people would be more receptive to hobbits than "another fucking goblin."
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 15:49, Reply)
was actually based on CS Lewis. It was an attempt to reconcile the different facets of Lewis's changing spirituality- the reason why Gollum's loyalty wavers back and forth
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 15:54, Reply)
and that makes it true
(I may have made the whole thing up)
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 15:57, Reply)
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