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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 9076162" data-attributes="member: 71699">HarperCollins' deputy publishing director Chris Smith said Tolkien continued to write about Middle-earth in the decades that followed, right up until the years before his death.J.R.R. Tolkien himself once wrote in a letter to W.H. Auden, dated June 7, 1955, that he was often surprised by the world of Middle-earth as he wrote about it. Tolkien wrote that,I accept that not everyone feels that way when authoring an imagined world. I do, and other folk tell me they do, too. I've labelled this internally &quot;the simulationist urge&quot; and it seems possible to me that folk who don't feel it could find simulationism less appealing. They are not experiencing the surprise and delight of exploring a simulated reality in the act of authoring it.In Tuovinen's terms, I site the simulationist urge largely under &quot;appreciation&quot; as for me it is more emotive, although there is also the pleasure of dawning comprehension, which would fit &quot;understanding&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 9076162, member: 71699"] HarperCollins' deputy publishing director Chris Smith said Tolkien continued to write about Middle-earth in the decades that followed, right up until the years before his death. J.R.R. Tolkien himself once wrote in a letter to W.H. Auden, dated June 7, 1955, that he was often surprised by the world of Middle-earth as he wrote about it. Tolkien wrote that, I accept that not everyone feels that way when authoring an imagined world. I do, and other folk tell me they do, too. I've labelled this internally "the simulationist urge" and it seems possible to me that folk who don't feel it could find simulationism less appealing. They are not experiencing the surprise and delight of exploring a simulated reality in the act of authoring it. In Tuovinen's terms, I site the simulationist urge largely under "appreciation" as for me it is more emotive, although there is also the pleasure of dawning comprehension, which would fit "understanding". [/QUOTE]

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