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The imaginative conception explored in Chapter 1 poses formidable difficulties of narrative construction and of style. A design of exceptional amplitude, multiplicity and expansiveness needs somehow to be reconciled with narrative energy and cohesion; and the resources of twentieth-century English language have to be deployed, without being wrenched into obscurity or disfigurement, in the representation of an invented world remote from that of contemporary experience.
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On the contrary, the drafts of these chapters, edited by Christopher Tolkien and published as The Return of the Shadow (Unwin Hyman, 1988), reveal a many-layered revision, and a steady advance in breadth of conception and maturity of style.
J. Carey, ‘Hobbit-forming’, The listener, 12 May 1977, p. 631 (a review of Carpenter’s biography of Tolkien).
E. Kirk, ‘Language, Fiction and The lord of the Rings’, M. Spilka (ed.), Towards a Poetics of Fiction (Indiana University Press, 1977) p. 300.
Francis Hope, ‘Welcome to Middle-earth’, New Statesman, 11 November 1966, pp. 701–2.
Carey, The listener, 12 May 1977, p. 631.
Hardy, The Return of the Native, chapter 1 (Macmillan paperback edition, 1974) p. 35.
Roger Sale, Modern Heroism (University of California Press, 1973) p. 213.
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Rosebury, B. (1992). The Lord of the Rings: (2) Execution. In: Tolkien. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22133-2_3
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