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Typed this up just today, so consider it a Work In Progress (WIP). I started reading Lord of the Rings again, and finding it much easier to understand this time. I was surprised to find there was actually a part in the book where something like this happens, though it's much smaller. Tolkien was focused on the Hobbits, and not the fox.
I realize I risk offending hardcore Tolkien fans with this, but I pray they (and Tolkien) will excuse me. I just thought it'd be interesting to consider things from the fox's point of view, however brief it'd be. 'Course, I may expand it later. Who knows what else was going on while he was still alive?
I realize I risk offending hardcore Tolkien fans with this, but I pray they (and Tolkien) will excuse me. I just thought it'd be interesting to consider things from the fox's point of view, however brief it'd be. 'Course, I may expand it later. Who knows what else was going on while he was still alive?
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I actually took a class on Tolkien in college (Don't laugh) taught by this really great Anglo-Saxonist professor who spent a lot of time on Tolkien studies. And he was so frustrated by this scene! A lot of Tolkien studiers were, apparently because Tolkien reworked this scene again and again and it just seems like there was no point to it. It was the literary equivalent of a Big Lipped Alligator Moment. It drove him nuts. XD
That's probably all it is. Unless it was a nod to C.S. Lewis' Narnia series, which had at least one talking fox in it.
I honestly wouldn't worry about it too much. Sometimes the work refuses to change in sensible ways. A writer can't always control what comes out of 'em. 'Course, there are some days you really wish you could... eugh.
I honestly wouldn't worry about it too much. Sometimes the work refuses to change in sensible ways. A writer can't always control what comes out of 'em. 'Course, there are some days you really wish you could... eugh.
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