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TopicGeekHouse of Horror LXXII
I_Abibde
10/06/20 12:10:02 PM
#78:


ParanoidObsessive posted...
Essentially, he wrote his books more as an excuse to use the dozen or so fictional languages he made up as his lifelong hobby.

Well, I'm a linguist (... and a hack), and I can confirm that, but my comment above was a bit tongue-in-cheek (... because I hate FFN and what it does to formatting).

For a while it became almost standard that every fantasy novel had to have little poem/song fragments in them (because Tolkien did it).

Wheel of Time is a good example of this, though I noticed that the songs more or less disappeared after the first book.

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