On a site of well written rants, on re: Tolkien that's worth reading.
http://www.aslan.demon.co.uk/tolk.htm
Title: Is Tolkien Actually Any Good?
Good quote:
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Tolkien says in his grumpy introduction that he wishes he had written a
longer book. What seems pretty clear is that his readers want more. Not more
fantasy. Good writers like Le Guin or Frank Herbert do not hit the spot.
More of the exact same: more dwarves with beards who live in mines and sing
songs about gold; more slightly sarcastic wizards with tall hats and pipes,
more dark lords on dark thrones in the land of mordor where the shadows lie.
If you could find a way of separating the archetypes from the boring
business of having to read then that would do the trick. This may be why
Magic the Gathering has made so much money.
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Joshua
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