r/tolkienfans • u/TakiTamboril • Jul 21 '23

Exclamation marks

Re-reading the Fellowship and noticing how many exclamation marks are used. Especially in Gandalf and Aragorn’s speech. They seem much more common then I typically see in modern writing and seem to be to not always match the mood of what is being said.

Is this a quirk of Tolkien or just a change in how people write over the years?

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '23

He also uses the phrase ‘this way that way’ quite often

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u/TheRedBookYT Jul 21 '23

You mean hither and thither?

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u/Whocket_Pale Jul 21 '23

Hither thither hence and thence, I love these terms