Timeline for J.R.R. Tolkien's Letter 171
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 9:11 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 26, 2014 at 13:03 | comment | added | TimR | Also, what would be an archaism if used when talking with the man-on-the-street could be regarded as merely a stylistic feature a poem. Literary genres can be more conservative. That said, a fine line that has to be walked here, because the overuse of archaic forms can doom a work to the curiosity shoppe. | |
| Oct 26, 2014 at 12:19 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | Keep in mind that Tolkien was a scholar of Old English and wrote his fiction in deliberately 'archaic' styles. For him archaic is not a derogatory term but simply descriptive. | |
| Oct 26, 2014 at 9:46 | answer | added | Toby Y. | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 26, 2014 at 9:05 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | I believe that those little 'empty' words mentioned are en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_particles. (To be clear, my personal belief is that they aren't empty.) | |
| Oct 26, 2014 at 8:08 | history | asked | user8712 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |