To each her own, then, Lezlie... because there are only so many ways to say
'gosh, Tolkien was doing new things back then, lookie.'  And unless I'm
misreading you (possible!  it's early) - there's a limited use in nostaligic
'wasn't fantasy better back then' critiques

darkelf, room for al kinds


> You know, I really don't find some of the more recent critiques of Tolkein
> very
> interesting. They miss much of the point of his writing -- or, worse, treat
> his
> books and note very good children's stories --.  The "Class
division" thing
> is
> one of the latest -- He was reather better than some of the fantasy writers
> who
> followed him, IMHO,blatant S&M sexual fantasy,the ancient culural disease
> called slavery, bloody and violent warfare and torture, gawdaful "cities in
> the
> desert" senarios that defy logic.  Endless "magical
swords" told & re-told.
> Bla. Picking on Tolkein is a seemingly fashionable passtime currently. He was
> one of the first, where the fantasy benchmark was set a generation ago --
> and,
> the only critiques that are really interesting discuss his work in context of
> that fact. Lezlie  
> >


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