09-27-2002, 11:40 AM | #21 |
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Interview With the Vampire was relatively interesting, but the whole chronicles seemed to nose-dive after that. At one point, just became grossed-out and put the books down.
I guess I found Interview to be interesting as I grew up in Louisiana too...
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"...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160. |
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