Tue, 14 Aug 2007
The Hobbit
I've been reading The Hobbit and one thing that strikes me repeatedly is how
much more informal this book is than the LoTR books. The latter have a
self-conscious tone of narrating epochal events. The former just reads
like a
rollicking adventure story (at least it seems to be, till now!).
Tolkien wrote The
Hobbit before the LoTR books. I'm guessing its success made him a bit more self-conscious and stilted his
story-telling a bit.
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