Re: [rehfans] Thud and Blunder revisited

[Michael Martinez]

At 11:44 AM 12/1/00, you wrote:
> >
> > 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.

I'll grant you that Tolkien went off on tangents every now and then, but he 
was more wrapping stories up inside of stories than anything else.  There 
are darned few real mundane details in most of THE LORD OF THE RINGS.  It's 
just a really long story.  :)


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