Now, now, boys. Now, now.
Lots of problems, but it moves, & is a story. It's the lack of
narrative drive that make the Sil so much less interesting...
Such fantasy (& there as elsewhere there are good & bad ones, but the
genre per se isn't by definition bad) is of course a matter of taste, &
that may change
But I always found that my interest in other-than-realist writing could
include certain kinds of 'fantasy' (as seen as a commercial identity) &
such volumes as 100 Years of Solitude, etc...
Doug
On 27-Mar-07, at 5:38 AM, MJ Walker wrote:
> Moi aussi, Roger, bang on - it was endlessly boring. I did feel a
> certain amount of sympathy with the Gollum, who is the only character
> I can specifically remember.
> mjay
>
> Roger Day wrote:
>
>> I read LOTR endlessly when I was young - I detest it. Tolkien should
>> have stuck to Medeivel pixies or whatever it was he as at.
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