Bob Z wrote: > > I didn't particularly like his writing style and some > things like Tom Bomadale were just a bit too fey for > my taste. > "Me too" hated Tom Bombadil, until I joined a Tolkien mailing list where we dissected every sentence in his books [something that I would like to do with Brin's books here...] and I suddenly began to appreciate Tom - because he fits perfectly well with the Middle-earth mythos as Tolkien thought about it in 1937 or so.
Alberto Monteiro
