Re: TTT EE is a fantastic improvement

On 2 Dec 2003 01:50:04 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(One-White-Tree) wrote:
>
>If only it were that easy. I've read the books alright, and though I
>appreciate that when you're writing an epic, you're not really
>supposed to take into account battle logistics, Tolkien is certainly
>the premier epic fantasy writer of the 20th Century but no student of
>military tactics or strategy.

Unless you have had special military training, which Tolkien did (see
WW I), and considering the military descriptions which pervade the
writings he studied, I bet that he studied military tactics and
strategy a lot more then either you or I.


the softrat
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