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Originally Posted by Lush
However, the attacks on Tolkien are getting a bit tiring. First Hitchens, now this... I understand that for Pullman, it's probably very frustrating to invariably get lumped together with Tolkien when it comes to the way that HDM is assessed and placed in context of literary history. Which is, perhaps, why he feels the need to trash Tolkien repeteadly.
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Or maybe, when he was still an unknown, one too many publishers sent back his manuscripts with advice to write something more like
The Lord of the Rings, because that's what sells.