Tolkien in the Land of Heroes : Discovering the Human Spirit
by Anne C. Petty
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Author: Anne C. PettyEditor: J. Stein
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-08-26
ISBN: 1892975998
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Cold Spring Press
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Book Review: Overly verbose and trivial
Summary: 1 Stars
My wife gave me this book for my birthday this year, and it's the first time I've ever been disappointed by a gift from her. I read 75 pages of this before I couldn't force myself any further.
The book reads like one long run-on sentence. Ideas that should have taken a few words to mention are given several paragraphs; those that should have taken a paragraph are given many pages. An example from early on: the author spends an inordinate time speaking of how Melkor's tainting of the Music of the Ainur and his eventual exile compares to the Eden story in the Judeo-Christian belief system. The author states explicitly that she assumes familiarity with the Silmarillion; anyone with such familiarity who was raised by or near Judeo-Christian folk, who also has this presumed knowledge of the Silmarillion, will find this to be obvious and nearly trivial. Instead of being a building block for a larger theme, is in itself given several pages of aimless discussion!
Furthermore, if (besides Silmarillion familiarity) the reader has anything more than a thin overview of knowledge of Greek and Norse myths, then nothing of interest can be learned here. My guess is that, like me, you'll find that you can rewrite all the useful information contained in the first 75 pages as a single paragraph, not taking even a single page, and conveying the same informational content. I wouldn't bother.
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