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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:49:56 -0700, Sean_Q_  wrote:   
      
   >Btw Weirdstone was one of the few fantasy/sci-fi stories that   
   >truly scared me. The Mara troll-women still give me the shivers.   
      
   And though the underground tunnel sequence is almost a cliche of the genre,   
   the one in "The weirdstone of Brisingamen" was, and is, the scariest I've ever   
   read.   
      
   Tolkien uses it twice in "The Hobbit" (Bilbo's encounter with Gollum, and   
   Smaug's lair), and at least three times in "Lord of the rings" (Moria, the   
   paths of the dead, and Shelob's lair). The actual disposal of the ring could   
   count as a fourth, I suppose. But not even Shelob was as scary as the one in   
   "Weirdstone".   
      
      
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