[LMB] ( now Tolkien) TSK:B vs Dragonflight

[Lois McMaster Bujold]

[LMB] TSK:B vs Dragonflight
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Sat May 26 00:12:36 BST 2007


I think I've been gone so long the whole _SK_ discussion,
spoilered and otherwise, took place without me.

 
Sad me.
    

*** C'mon, folks!  Don't leave Pouncer sad!

(Many snips)  


The problem of expecting a character in a "magic" story to conform
to the behavior of a John Campbell-ish engineer/inventor/hero is not
the author's problem, of course.


*** The Author has read all those books, too.  The result was _Falling 
Free_, iirc.  Been there, wrote that...



 And I've previously confessed to
having mentally carried Tom Bombadill's mystery adoption of /marriage
to Goldberry in the first part of TLOTR all the way thru the rest of the
epic waiting for/expecting somebody to tell a hobbit-detective a
corresponding tale about a golden-haired girl who long ago went
missing; so the simple clear sighted hobbit could lay things out all fair

and square, with no contradictions and go "ah-HA!"  Ah. Hmm.
 Nope.  That's not the tale Tolkein wanted to tell.



*** Hee!  And for the quickest thread (no pun intended) drift in history --

I think even on my first reading, at a naive 15, I got that Goldberry 
was a local river spirit of, specifically, the Withywindle, and no more 
human than Tom.  "Goldberry's washing day" wasn't about laundry.

Unlike many, I love the Old Forest sequence, and re-read it frequently 
(when not just starting with the first appearance of Strider.)

Ta, L.