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Re: LoTR v. Harry Potter
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Fri, 7 Dec 2001 19:33:44 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Aaron Dalan writes:
> Certain ideas are so nearly universal that you could almost call them >specieist or human.
I am not really taking issue with the above statement, but it reminded me of
a great essay in cultural anthropology: "Shakespeare in the Bush"
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/idris/Essays/Shakes_in_Bush.htm
Kinda surprised to find it online and for FREE! I love that essay...
-- Hop-Frog
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| (...) Just read and enjoyed the essay. Now your assignment--right a fictional account of someone trying to explain the plot of LoTR to those tribal elders. :) Aaron D. (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | LoTR v. Harry Potter
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| (...) snip and James goes on to give several other striking similarities. I am 30 years old, and I have read the Hobbit, LoTR, and most all of JRR Tolkien's other related works, as well as most of Christopher Tolkien's scholarship on his father's (...) (23 years ago, 7-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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