The Hobbit: Tolkien on Writing Style
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ericadawn16It has been far too long since I've read The Hobbit especially the annotated one.
Page 76:
To an interviewer in 1967 Tolkien commented: "The Hobbit was written in what I should now regard as bad style, as if one were talking to children. There's nothing my children loathed more.They taught me a lesson. Anything that in any way marked out The Hobbit as for children instead of just for people, they disliked - instinctively. I did too, now that I think about it. All this 'I won't tell you any more; you think about it' stuff. Oh no, they loathe it; it's awful. Children aren't a class. They are merely human beings, at differing stages of maturity."
Me Again-
I agree about stuff that can be too preachy but I can like books that directly address the reader especially "A Series of Unfortunate Events" although the fun about that series is that it's really making fun of traditional children's story.
Oh Sunny, you slay me...if only your Scalia joke could be less up to date.
Page 76:
To an interviewer in 1967 Tolkien commented: "The Hobbit was written in what I should now regard as bad style, as if one were talking to children. There's nothing my children loathed more.They taught me a lesson. Anything that in any way marked out The Hobbit as for children instead of just for people, they disliked - instinctively. I did too, now that I think about it. All this 'I won't tell you any more; you think about it' stuff. Oh no, they loathe it; it's awful. Children aren't a class. They are merely human beings, at differing stages of maturity."
Me Again-
I agree about stuff that can be too preachy but I can like books that directly address the reader especially "A Series of Unfortunate Events" although the fun about that series is that it's really making fun of traditional children's story.
Oh Sunny, you slay me...if only your Scalia joke could be less up to date.
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Date: 2013-07-20 05:02 am (UTC)