Ethel Duath
Gondolin
Mar 27, 1:08am
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"breaks out of that blind obedience"
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Yes, oh yes.
You've put Pippin in an entirely new light for me. Although I noticed this, I never gave it the weight it (he) deserved.
" . . . Tolkien’s ability to refrain from stating central facts." I had noticed this. It's one of the key reasons why his writing is so effective. Oddly, this kind of thing makes the reader work harder, to try to figure out what is meant by what is not quite said. But instead of repelling or exhausting, it pulls us in.
(This post was edited by Ethel Duath on Mar 27, 1:08am)
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