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Forum Name: Symphony of the Sword/The Order of the Rose
Topic ID: 75
Message ID: 21
#21, RE: S5: Meet the Duelists II
Posted by O_M on Jan-10-07 at 02:12 AM
In response to message #19
What I'm doing in adapting it to UF is to take literally the sly metacontinuity that Tolkien himself sometimes invoked. Tolkien claimed, with a bit of a wink, that The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were both English translations from the ancient Red Book of Westmarch, and that some details had probably been lost in translation.

For someone who's a self-avowed not-quite fan of the series, I'm admittedly surprised you were aware of that little bit of side-trivia. I only learned about it(despite being enough of a fan to slough through Unfinished Tales in addition to that book that begins with S whose spelling I will not attempt at this time)when it came up in one of the special features of the DVDs of the movie.

That said, I must salute you on possibly the most brilliant means of LotR crossover EVER.

That, and I giggled like a fool at the reference to Mr. Lewis. :)