Re: Re: "Sufficient" detail

From: philip.hibbs_at_...
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:33:32 +0100

>...how Tolkein wrote the Lord of the Rings - he did
>not know, at the time he introduced him, that "Strider"
>was in reality Aragorn, King of the West. Strider was
>just a shadowy and slightly menacing figure met in Bree.

Actually, when Tolkien first wrote the scene, he was a Hobbit with wooden feet, called "Trotter".

Philip Hibbs http://www.snark.freeserve.co.uk/ Opinions expressed may not even be my own, let alone those of any organisations, nations, species, or schools of thought to which I may be affiliated.

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