dernwyn
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Jul 30 2012, 4:38pm
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I read it through, years ago
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And my sole recollection is that the language made the reading experience unpleasant. It was - well, "clunky", and had an artificially archaic feel. Maybe it was just that I'm used to Tolkien's very fluid and "readable" use of archaic-style language!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I desired dragons with a profound desire" "It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?" -Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915
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