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Meditations on Middle Earth

When New Line Cinema announced that they had posted the film trailer for the upcoming Lord of the Rings trilogy on their official website (), more than 10 million people downloaded the trailer in the first month alone. That should give you an idea of the rabid fan base devoted to Tolkien's work and just how excited they are about these films. To tie in with the release of the first film (in theaters holiday 2001) is MEDITATIONS ON MIDDLE EARTH, a collection of original essays written by today's top fantasy and science fiction authors on the importance of The Lord of the Rings to their lives and their work. It will be a huge success for several reasons. For one, the people that make up this anthology include New York Times bestselling authors George R.R. Martin (Storm of Swords), Orson Scott Card (Ender's Shadow), Terry Pratchett (Discworld), Ursula Le Guin (The Telling), Gene Wolfe (Book of the New Sun), Poul Anderson, and many more. In addition, many of the essays will reveal tidbits about these wildly popular authors, including the inspiration behind some of their most beloved works, and details about their past--things their fans crave.

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Title of ebook: Meditations on Middle Earth
ISBN: 9780312703325
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Internet download file size: 730 kb
Released online for download: 12-01-2001
Editor: Haber, Karen
Illustrator: Owen, John

Meditations on Middle-Earth

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Rhythmic Patterning in The Lord of the Rings
By Ursula K. LeGuin

Since I had three children, I've read Tolkien's trilogy aloud three times. It's a wonderful book to read aloud or (consensus by the children) listen to. Even when the sentences are long, their flow is perfectly clear, and follows the breath; punctuation comes just where you need to pause; the cadences are graceful and inevitable. Like Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf, Tolkien must have heard what he wrote. The narrative prose of such novelists is like poetry in that it wants the living voice to speak it, to find its full beauty and power, its subtle music, its rhythmic vitality.

Woolf's vigorous, highly characteristic sentence-rhythms are purely and exclusively prose: I don't think she ever uses a regular beat. Dickens and Tolkien both occasionally drop into metrics. Dickens's prose in moments of high emotional intensity tends to become iambic, and can even be scanned: "It is a far, f ... read full excerpt from Meditations on Middle Earth ebook