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dormouse
Valinor
Nov 3 2012, 8:51am
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... but when you think about it, even when Tolkien told the story to his children, before it was written down, people were used to the movies. They knew about close-ups. By the time it was published, movies were one of the main sources of entertainment, so even the first readers would have been used to that kind of presentation of a story. But you're right. One tiny wizard between huge armies bent on killing one another, somehow managing to make his voice heard, has a different kind of drama to it. That was why I mentioned the herald of Mandos, which another poster questioned. It does remind me of that. In both cases you have a huge host bent on following its own course in defiance of reason - in the Sil it's the Noldor trying to escape Aman after the Kinslaying; here it's groups who are essentially good locking horns over treasure, none prepared to give way, and suddenly in both cases there's one figure, a lone voice, making itself heard and stopping them - changing the course of events. It does remind me and I'm unrepentant about that!
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