It is also particularly funny when people act as if LOTR was written so long ago it's completely divorced from us, as if the 1950s are not part of the modern world, or that homosexuality wasn't even known about much less written about when of course it was.
They don't act like the 50s were another age. My roommate read LotR as it came out when she was a kid in the 50s, and she talks about the books like they were written in the 1850s or something. Many people seem to think these books are a lot older than they really are, possibly because of the style in which they are written. I don't know. It just drives me nuts when people go on about how we're taking a book from another age and putting modern interpretations upon it, when the book was written at exactly the same time as the Persian Boy and Mary Renaults' other literature.
Re: LotR: Sam & Frodo Part 2
They don't act like the 50s were another age. My roommate read LotR as it came out when she was a kid in the 50s, and she talks about the books like they were written in the 1850s or something. Many people seem to think these books are a lot older than they really are, possibly because of the style in which they are written. I don't know. It just drives me nuts when people go on about how we're taking a book from another age and putting modern interpretations upon it, when the book was written at exactly the same time as the Persian Boy and Mary Renaults' other literature.
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