Yeah, just the pagecounts in my little MMPB editions are ridiculously low--barely 200 for TMN and LWW, a little more than 200 for HHB, and 240 (the longest of the books except VDT, I think) for PC. And the font of course is huge, and there are illustrations.
Going by that schema, then, LotR is more like a legend. I think in particular it's that vein of realism that gives Narnia its charm--tea and sewing machines and umbrellas and lampposts mixed up with fauns and talking Beavers and Witches. Though of course if you think about that realism too closely you wind up with something like Carpetbaggers, in which basically everyone left in Narnia collaborated with the Witch to some extent, to survive.
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Date: 2011-01-17 21:43 (UTC)Going by that schema, then, LotR is more like a legend. I think in particular it's that vein of realism that gives Narnia its charm--tea and sewing machines and umbrellas and lampposts mixed up with fauns and talking Beavers and Witches. Though of course if you think about that realism too closely you wind up with something like Carpetbaggers, in which basically everyone left in Narnia collaborated with the Witch to some extent, to survive.