Hmmm, it's been a while since I read that forward, but I do remember having a whole "suuuuuuuuuure" response to Tolkien's "I wasn't influenced by that, dammit"
But interpretation is as interpretation is. I'm never convinced that many of these great authors were drawing on some of the things we claim they were drawing on. They were just writing; some of that meaning is in the eye of the beholder.
Sure they’re risk-adverse, kinda classist, more than a little xenophobic, maybe a bit socially stagnant,
I mean... rural England? :D The Shire delights me though, in all it's simple complexity.
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Date: February 4th, 2021 05:47 pm (UTC)But interpretation is as interpretation is. I'm never convinced that many of these great authors were drawing on some of the things we claim they were drawing on. They were just writing; some of that meaning is in the eye of the beholder.
Sure they’re risk-adverse, kinda classist, more than a little xenophobic, maybe a bit socially stagnant,
I mean... rural England? :D The Shire delights me though, in all it's simple complexity.