Posted: December 09, 1999 at 12:57:09: by Michael Martinez
: Sure, Tolkien did include Egyptian, Roman, possibly even Arab,
: Indian, Sumerian or whatever influences in his world. But he
: did not go cherrypicking between cultures. He introduced these
: 'foreign' cultures so that they should appear foreign to the
: reader, who is supposed to associate with the Hobbits. At the
: time, Tolkien was not envisaging the worldwide audience he now
: has, but was writing for an English audience.[snip] Tolkien wrote THE LORD OF THE RINGS for a much larger audience than his English readers. THE HOBBIT won an award in America early on and was a great success over here. And it quickly spread to other countries as well.
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