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   Weland to Steve Hayes   
   Re: "J.K. Rowling among the Inklings"   
   11 Oct 10 18:56:34   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.fan.tolkien, alt.fan.harry-potter   
   From: giles@poetic.com   
      
   On 10/11/2010 12:42 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > 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?   
   >   
   >   
      
   Not "sell" perhaps, but get another published.   
      
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