I have been listening to Rob Inglis’ rather magnificent audiobook performance of The Lord of the Rings, and I’ve been struck by a minor locution of Tolkien’s that I’d noticed before in the Aubrey-Maturin novels. This is the habit of inverting the syntax of the dialogue tag. Instead of using Gandalf said or Jack said to identify the speakers of dialogue,…
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