I love the sing-song fairytale cadence of this story. It feels like it should be read aloud. Part of that is the presentation of basic information (like, the fact that palace in Edoras is called "Meduseld") in a kind of pedantic way, which is typical in children's books. Is that what you were going for? At first I was a little put off by it, but then I started to see it as kind of cute (Lemony Snicket does this very tongue-in-cheekily in his Series of Unfortunate Events books, and I love it as a humour style).
shadowslayer
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Sat Apr 23, 2005 7:56 pm
I honestly like this story. I also like the cliff hangers they keep you pondering about the story for awhile!