breaking a thing

[calimac]

Anyone interested in reading an insanely convoluted argument in Tolkien scholarship is welcome to it.

Comments

[voidampersand]

That is a fine puff of logic and easily understandable. I have sympathy for readers who go astray, because the power of stories is so great. The urge to fill in the blanks with one's own imaginings can be irresistible.

More importantly, does the title mean you will be coming to Corflu?

[calimac]

Tempting as it is, I am quite retired from fandom, and Corflu is no longer on my dance card. If there's another Potlatch, though, I'd go to that.

The reference you saw was real, though, and was intended as a shout-out to Tom Shippey. The last time I saw him, what he mostly wanted to talk with me about was the (then still-living) Peter Weston, I being one of the few people Tom would be seeing on that trip who knew Peter.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I'm not! I'd rather read the Professor.............

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

If you had read it, you'd find that the final paragraph is an argument against excessive picayunity in pursuit of settling the details of a story.

[(Anonymous)]

For starters, it's nice to know that someone is actually reading "The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies". As for the specific point, I definitely have one of those "less mighty" brains, since I knew immediately what your "probably mistaken" referred to. I also happen to believe that Shippey was right that Denethor saw Frodo imprisoned in the Tower of Cirith Ungol.

-MTD/neb

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Ironically, given Shippey's attempt to divinate my meaning, I actually have no opinion on the latter question, not caring to delve enough into the details to develop one.