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pyan · 29th July 2007, 02:18 PM

Thanks, jd.

I find that I think of The Silmarillion, TCoH and the Unfinished & Lost Tales as being myths, and The Hobbit and the LotR as being modern stories based on those myths - to me, at least, it explains the difference between the "high style" of the former, and the more colloquial language of the latter.
There are bits of LotR that are reminiscent of the Silmarillion, though: the scene where Aragorn and Gandalf find the sapling of the White Tree, (RotK, Book VI, Chapter V, The Steward and the King) is in the same high style, as is most of that chapter.

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pyan Moderator Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Hampshire Posts: 4,509	Re: Have you read other Tolkien books.... Thanks, jd. I find that I think of The Silmarillion, TCoH and the Unfinished & Lost Tales as being myths, and The Hobbit and the LotR as being modern stories based on those myths - to me, at least, it explains the difference between the "high style" of the former, and the more colloquial language of the latter. There are bits of LotR that are reminiscent of the Silmarillion, though: the scene where Aragorn and Gandalf find the sapling of the White Tree, (RotK, Book VI, Chapter V, The Steward and the King) is in the same high style, as is most of that chapter.