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shadowfyr · 12-12-2005, 05:24 PM

Well, it was his RL ideas, at least from my understanding. He was disillusioned with aspects of "his" world, so like many people who read a bit of some old tales, but don't know the true history, he may have developed an obsession with the idea of returning to a better time. You see the same thing today with people that have strong religious convictions, harking back to some imaginary golden age, which historically never existed, but which they never the less are *sure* must have.

But that is just why I think he wrote some of it, not what made me uneasy in the first place. I think in that case it was a lot of factors, and having it be assigned reading in a class, when I would have preferred about a dozen other books didn't help.

12-12-2005, 05:24 PM	#13
shadowfyr Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 310	Well, it was his RL ideas, at least from my understanding. He was disillusioned with aspects of "his" world, so like many people who read a bit of some old tales, but don't know the true history, he may have developed an obsession with the idea of returning to a better time. You see the same thing today with people that have strong religious convictions, harking back to some imaginary golden age, which historically never existed, but which they never the less are sure must have. But that is just why I think he wrote some of it, not what made me uneasy in the first place. I think in that case it was a lot of factors, and having it be assigned reading in a class, when I would have preferred about a dozen other books didn't help.