Nope. They're the same thing. "The rim, and the "veil" beyond which the First Ones passed, is the Galactic rim - JMS"
Huh. I totally figured them for different things.
It's not that kind of fantasy book, for one.
Ah. Well, perhaps I should've said "Every High Fantasy author," although you see influences in all areas of fantasy writing. Then again, LOTR itself has many a Biblical, Miltonian, and Anglo-Saxon precedent, so it all becomes trivial after a certain point.
I couldn't get past the second page of Fellowship.
Well, they aren't everyone's cup of tea. And the movies are excellent, and even improve on the story in a couple of places, such as leaving out the ill-advised Scouring of the Shire. (Although there's one part of ROTK that didn't get filmed that I wished had--there's a passage about Legolas hearing a seagull and that making him long for the Undying Lands that's just beautiful--and the Faramir/Eowyn romance is much less rushed in the book.)
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Date: 2009-03-19 09:57 pm (UTC)Huh. I totally figured them for different things.
It's not that kind of fantasy book, for one.
Ah. Well, perhaps I should've said "Every High Fantasy author," although you see influences in all areas of fantasy writing. Then again, LOTR itself has many a Biblical, Miltonian, and Anglo-Saxon precedent, so it all becomes trivial after a certain point.
I couldn't get past the second page of Fellowship.
Well, they aren't everyone's cup of tea. And the movies are excellent, and even improve on the story in a couple of places, such as leaving out the ill-advised Scouring of the Shire. (Although there's one part of ROTK that didn't get filmed that I wished had--there's a passage about Legolas hearing a seagull and that making him long for the Undying Lands that's just beautiful--and the Faramir/Eowyn romance is much less rushed in the book.)