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   Steve Hayes to All   
   Re: "J.K. Rowling among the Inklings"   
   11 Oct 10 19:42:45   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.fan.tolkien, alt.fan.harry-potter   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 05:38:26 -0400, "Clams Canino"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"Steve Hayes"  wrote in message   
   >   
   >> They have in common with the Narnia series and "The Hobbit" the genre of   
   >> being   
   >> children's fantasy, but I don't think that is enough to make anyone an   
   >> honorary Inkling. The other Inklings didn't write children's fantasies,   
   >> and   
   >> some of them didn't write anything at all.   
   >   
   >I think that's the sticky point.  This whole "tradition of the Inklings"   
   >notion is quite vague and smells more of someone trying to sell an article   
   >then anything else.   
      
   Sell an article?   
      
   To whom?   
      
      
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