(urth) Silmarillion

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The man wanted to get paid.

This is not an hypothesis.

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> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 2010/7/7 António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>:
>>
>> >>> The Quenta Silmarillion is an unfinished book, but why is it deeply
>> >>> flawed?
>> >>
>> >> Try reading "Of Beleriand and its Realms" without falling asleep.
>> >
>> > Is that a matter of not 'leav[ing] out the parts that people skip'?
>>
>> It's a matter of not doing a good job of integrating one's infodumps.
>>
>>
> Again, not a novel.  The infodumps were as much for the author's working
> out
> of his creative impulse as anything else.  Personally, I'm fascinated by
> Tolkien's process, and while "Of Beleriand and its Realms" is a hard slog,
> I'm glad to have it.
>
>
>
>> --
>> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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