Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
I was just saying that even the original LOTR books were created as mass marketed product. That of course doesn't take anything away from the artistic aspect of the work.
I was just saying that even the original LOTR books were created as mass marketed product. That of course doesn't take anything away from the artistic aspect of the work.
No they weren't. They were sold as mass marketed product. They were created to give a world to the language Tolkien had created. He knew that a language with no one to speak it was useless. So he created a world where the inhabitants spoke the language he had created.
I'm not sure about the title for ROTK, but I know the title of TTT is ambiguous. Even Tolkien didn't really know which two towers the title referred to. Was it Minus Tirith and Minus Morgul or was it Saruman and Sauron's towers (the proper names are escaping me at the moment)? To some it's the former, to others the latter.