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TOLKIEN --- Showing vs. telling.....why did telling work for him: Re: Telling vs Showing


  1. WonderBroad

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Top 1.   Dec 24, 2004 10:10 AM

» WonderBroad - Re: Telling vs Showing

In response to Telling vs Showing posted by OrbDawg:

Tolkien did both showing and telling in LOTR. He didn't choose one over the other. The story is so huge that both approaches work--and they are, in my opinion, both necessary.

-- posted by WonderBroad


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