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Old 09-15-2023, 10:43 PM   #1861
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Originally Posted by andyh2000 View Post
I skim the poetry and songs in Lord of the Rings - no-one's got time to read five pages of elves singing about gold.

Andrew
As someone who read LotR 17-18 times (1st at 7yo) and each time spent ~5X as long in the appendices as on the story, I read it rather differently.
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