Troll Bridge (Discworld #16.5)

Troll Bridge (Discworld #16.5) | Terry Pratchett

Stumps! I used to like that forest. It was, well, it was darksome. You don't get proper darksome anymore. You really knew what terror was in a forest like that."
"You want darksome? He's replanting with spruce," said Micah. "Spruce!"
"He said replanting would make the land easier to sell."
There was a long pause while Cohan digested this. "You can't sell Cutshave Forest. It doesn't belong to anyone."
"Yeah? He says that's why you can sell it.

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Troll Bridge (Discworld #16.5) | Terry Pratchett

Nute I can see the truth in that statement. 4y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Daisey @JazzFeathers @wordslinger42 So odd to come across this one that he wrote for a Tolkien anthology, but in his Discworld way.... it made me think about the other book I‘m reading and after the war is won and the spiders in the trees gone and the plains of Rohan fenced. Weird cross reading overlap. This short story in Pratchett‘s world was fun, but the Middle Earth equivalent made me melancholy. 4y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Nute Me too, it just wrung true...sadly true. 4y

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JazzFeathers I remember reading this story long long years ago, before l first fell into Middle-Earth. You know, l was talking about it with a Tolkien friend, not long ago, about the melancholy of the Elves and the reasons why they leave Middle-Earth. I've been studying WWI lately for a writing project, it makes me think about Tolkien and his work a lot. 4y

JazzFeathers WWI was a big cut in history. There was a world before it and a world after it and the two worlds were so unlike each other that they could hardly understand each other. The Lost Generation, Tolkien‘s Generation, was educated for the world that was not there for them anymore longer. Pratchett probably spoke of a universal truth. But Tolkien spoke from experience. 4y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @JazzFeathers I think you‘re right. 4y

Daisey True and such an interesting reading overlap. Thanks for sharing. 4y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Daisey You‘re are welcome.... it made me think about how Middle Earth was meant to be our past, and how after the war, many left Middle Earth...the bad, and the good sailing away because it wasn‘t the world for them any more. 4y

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