Are There Any Valid Criticisms? (aka Kalessin's Rant)

[littlemanpoet]

One final point.


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LOTR is art, fraught with the sadness of something lost that can never be regained, whereas most of the fantasy genre is entertainment.

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I loved that.

Thanks, Stephanos. Have you ever had it that words seem to come from someplace other than your own mind? Writing those words felt like that.

Thanks, Mithadan, for reconnecting us to the past in terms of LoTR's place in 20th century literature. Very enlightening.

The lack of respect LoTR receives as literature (and now as a motion picture) results not from its own nature and genre but rather from the reputation of the genre which adopted it as its flagbearer.

I agree with this as far as it goes, Mithadan, but there is also a modernist prejudice against LoTR that rejects straightforward story telling in favor of referential and ironic writing, as Kalessin has pointed out.

Thanks, Child-7th Age, for the reference. There is a web site I've visited. The best of Reunion magazine It bases its subcreativity on our time being the Seventh Age, and I believe the webmaster considers the advent of The Machine as its beginning.

Thanks also for the summary of Curry. It sounds like the kind of book I'd like to read mainly because I already agree with it.

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