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bears really hope you won't be dissatisfied. It's a structure so complex that it defies all expectations. I tried to describe it here (thank you for reminding me! It was five years ago, and I totally...

but then, as I suggested before, you must be equally dissatisfied with other references (Seven Samurai, Wizard of Oz, etc), as well as the origin of Roland himself as Browning's Childe Roland?

Why not, if the Tower generates all worlds? Why should the one where we live be an exception?

How can you even say something like this? That's just your opinion :panic: I dream about SoS (and the other DT parts where King is mentioned) without the King's part. King as character in the saga...

Mad Man: could you please give some details as to what exactly in what I said you disagree with?

WhyTF is your name Wuducynn now? I've only now recognized you. I thought, where the hell AllHail was?

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Ryan: I am well acquainted with your position - as I believe you are with mine, because we chewed each other's ears off long ago on this subject...

I don't know about "more" or "less" real, or how it applies to a piece of fiction... I think that, for example, claming that it is "based on a true story" only subtracts from its qualities as work of...

why not?

well, yes - I'm sorry if it was clumsy Ryan! it's not always easy to play on subtleties, especially not in a foreign language and where you can't really be seen...

much as I respect obscure... I can't help feeling Mattqhew has really, truly hit the nail on the head here...

I am only basing on my experience of arguing with other readers, on or off-line. If you look back you will see that I only started this, quite off-topical, sideline of reasoning because of what...

AllHail: I am sorry I can't word it quite clearly; I'll try again. Trying to cram a great piece of fiction under a category is meaningless unless you intend further to judge it by the pre-existing...

AllHail: it's a novel. It defies the very concept of genre. It creates its own rules and plays by them, like any great novel does.

In my opinion, Tolkien was absolutely right as far as the purety of Fantasy as a genre was concerned. But TDT is not fantasy. It's a novel in a league of its own, like any other great novel.