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Postby splashen » June 2nd, 2008, 5:06 pm

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Postby Dan65802 » June 2nd, 2008, 5:10 pm

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Postby splashen » June 2nd, 2008, 5:18 pm

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Postby Dan65802 » June 2nd, 2008, 5:47 pm

"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." - Martin Luther King
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Postby Erekose » June 2nd, 2008, 6:37 pm

Call yourself a dog???? I've seen better hair on a lavatory brush!!!
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Postby splashen » June 2nd, 2008, 7:27 pm

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Postby Dan65802 » June 2nd, 2008, 7:48 pm

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Postby splashen » June 2nd, 2008, 7:50 pm

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Postby Dan65802 » June 2nd, 2008, 7:52 pm

That's correct. His first intent was a one-shot (LWW), then a trilogy (LWW, PC, VDT) and then it blossomed into the seven book series.

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Postby splashen » June 2nd, 2008, 8:03 pm

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Postby Dan65802 » June 2nd, 2008, 8:26 pm

I'm afraid I don't have that for you, most of my academic books (including books on Lewis) are in my attic (although someone else might be able to give documentation?). Perhaps the idea of planning a trilogy is too strong. My research showed that during the writing of VDT he had planned not to continue after that book. He may have changed his mind by the end of the writing.

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Postby Stanley Anderson » June 2nd, 2008, 8:27 pm

I "know" that fact about the trilogy and later seven too. I think it was in one of his letters where he said LWW was just going to be itself, and then turned into the three, and then to seven (noting in the letter at the same time the "fittingness" of having the numbers three or seven as a form of completeness. I think he also said in the same letter (or whatever it was) about how you can only quit in two places -- leaving them wanting more, or overdoing it (ie, implying that it is impossible to stop at exactly the right point), and that it is thus better to stop at the former.

But perhaps the quote-master Sven can come up with the exact reference?

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…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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