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   From: derek@pointerstop.ca   
      
   Troels Forchhammer wrote:   
      
   > In message    
   > Derek Broughton  spoke these staves:   
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   >> One definition I've seen is that "Fantasy" involves exactly one   
   >> element that is "impossible".  By that definition, any SF   
   >> involving faster-than-light space travel is probably a fantasy.  I   
   >> rather suspect that Tolkien would approve of such definitions,   
   >> though.   
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   > Did you mean to say 'approve' here?   
      
   Yes.   
      
   > I ask because the rest of the   
   > sentence made me read it, at first, as 'disapprove' until I realized   
   > what it actually said ;-)   
   >   
   > For my own part, I am not sure how I think Tolkien would have reacted   
   > -- I can see arguements either way (and I can even see how one could   
   > argue that he was uninterested in the 'fantasy' genre as such and thus   
   > wouldn't care either way), so I'd also be interested in your arguments   
   > regardless which way you lean.   
      
   I think he liked to categorize precisely.  He didn't like to think of his   
   works as fantasy in the sense that the term tends to be used, but would   
   accept that they were fantasy by the definition I gave.  Of course, he'd   
   then subdivide the genre much further before getting to LOTR.   
   --   
   derek   
      
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