Re: [rehfans] Thud and Blunder revisited

[Mike Mott]

> 
> Howard and Burroughs may not be topping the best-sellers lists but their
> works still sell decades after their deaths.  Is the compressed writing
> style going to outlast the fully-detailed pseudo-realism that Anderson
> advocated?

All things being equal, Tolkien was/is the ultimate over-detailer of fantasy
fiction.  This is why THE HOBBIT is by far and away the best-written, most
entertaining book he produced.  He didn't mire it down with
opulently-detailed world-building.

--Mike