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Tolkiens "Lord of the Rings" - Flaws?

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Sassafras
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Are there flaws in LOTR? Of course there are. Perfection does not exist. Not in art, not in life.


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That's because no absolutes exist.
Prove it!

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Axordil
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Any feature, planned or accidental, that makes a work of art do what it's supposed to do less effectively than it could is a flaw.

Hamlet has flaws. Beethoven's Ninth has flaws. LOTR has flaws.

And while to a great extent the flaws are in the eye of the beholder, author included, if they are in enough eyes of enough beholders, there's probably a reason.

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ToshoftheWuffingas
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Not only is enormous fun gained by some people finding these internal contradictions. Other people get just as much fun rationalising them.
So carry on with the fun folks. :)

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I always hated in FOTR, "Shadow of the Past", how Frodo was all panicky one moment, ready to flee, which seemed very sensible to me, at mention of the Black Riders looking for "Baggins", then the chapter ends.

Then Gandalf is telling him to go soon, "two or three weeks later". WTF? I'd have been gone immediately! Come to think of it, is this "something PJ did better than Tolkien?" I'm scared to wade back into that thread....

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