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> On a site of well written rants, on re: Tolkien that's worth reading.
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> http://www.aslan.demon.co.uk/tolk.htm
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> Title: Is Tolkien Actually Any Good?
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> 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.
> <<<
>
Noting the URL is this site run by a big CS Lewis fan? Aslan, we all know
was the lion in the Narnia books (and a Christ-like figure.) now if you
talk about Lewis you have to tak about Tolkein because as the core of the
"Inklings" group they were very close.
Kristin
