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Tolkien — is calm and nuanced, making use of extensive quotations from LotR, and arguing clearly and objectively for the points he makes. Neither is it true, as the article claims, that Raffel argues “that Tolkien wrote so simply, without the sorts of effect to be expected in a novel.” (In fact, it is hard to understand what this sentence means.) Raffel instead argues convincingly that Tolkien’s story is “a magnificent performance, full of charm, excitement, and affection, but it is not — at least as I am here using the term — literature.” (p. 218) As a result, the impression this Knowledge article gives of Raffel’s article is misleading and suggests that the writer of the Knowledge article has either misunderstood Raffel’s article or not read it at all. I am not acquainted with much of the other literature the article discusses, but when the Knowledge article claims that Catharine R. Stimpson “supported her argument by _inventing_ what she asserted were Tolkienistic sentences” (my emphasis), this gives me a bad feeling about the whole article.
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and this article often call it "prose style". This could be seen as excluding poetry, but the poetry has been discussed in relation to the prose style and even "Tolkien's writing style" or "Tolkien's language style" would be an improvement. (Alternately, since poetry is already covered in another
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English" (aka Anglo-Saxon) is not the same as old/archaic English, which could mean Chaucer's language, or Shakespeare's, or almost anything else.
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Tolkien's deep understanding of OE. Particularly in reference to the quote beginning with "Hador", which is stylistically consistent with the introductions of lords and leaders in the
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Critics” is referred to several times in this article. Since I reread Raffel’s article today I have quite a clear picture of the article and its argument. It is thus NOT true that Raffel “attacks” Tolkien’s style. In fact, his discussion — mostly
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Stimpson, the next paragraph describes Rosebury's point-by-point rebuttal of her claims, which are not editorial
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Tolkien's manipulation of syntax should also reflect this OE understanding OE has a characteristically more free word order than Modern English. Tolkien's freer word order is also stylistically consistent with of OE.
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