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Originally Posted by gmw
I think nostalgia adds a willingness to accept. When you're new to the work more rides on the author's ability to capture your imagination with the story, and I can easily see how the first half of this book may fail to do that, so by the second half one could easily be disenchanted and so less accepting.
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I had never read the book, so had no nostalgic baggage, but for me, the world-building at the beginning was the best bit of the book. Then again, for the majority of the 18 times I read
LotR I spent more time in the appendices than the story, so I may be an outlier.
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Originally Posted by bookpossum
the other person what s/he should do. (And maybe that term would have worked better for us, by the way
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This made me smile, because just minutes before reading it, I'd been thinking of the inexplicable antipathy so many have to acknowledging that "they" is a perfectly valid epicene singular pronoun and how the alternative is for the s/h/it to hit the fan, as it were.
