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Tolkien, gothic author
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PostPosted: November 15th, 2006, 5:25 pm 
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For Englsih, we have to rsearch Gothic authors and I was wondering if Tolkien would be considered one?

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Read this article in Wikipedia and I think you'll see it's absolutely positively undeniably not gothic lit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_literature

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Tolkien was definately not in the gothic era so i m not sure if his writing was gothic or not now that i think about it

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No I wouldn't say Tolkien was a Gothic writer, but then again I'm not sure of the definition... Nevertheless he was inspired by other genres and mythologies... so I wont deny the fact that one may recognize gothic elements in his work.

This thread might be an... hmm inspiration...
http://arwen-undomiel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11089

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Well, what about the Sil, would you consider that gothic?

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i think not :annoyed2: that's kinda dumb

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Mrs. Haldir wrote:
i think not :annoyed2: that's kinda dumb


Mrs. Haldir, please be polite when you respond to someone's opinions here on the board.

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