JRR Tolkien's second-rate prose

[Morthoron]

What I can't understand is the jury's appalling treatment of Robert Frost. Not give him a Nobel...because he's too old? Ummm...do the winners have to go on a world tour for a year while wearing a tiara?

[Lalaith]

His storytelling was criticised which was very unfair as I have rarely read any story so well told, plotted and satisfactorily wound up as that of Lord of the Rings.

Well quite, which is why I checked the translation for "diktning" and found that it wasn't right.

imagine all the high-brow nonsense they would then proceed to utter about it discussing it in their literati talk-shows

Heren, have you *seen* the canonicity thread?

[HerenIstarion]

Originally Posted by Lalaith

Heren, have you *seen* the canonicity thread?

Well, surely I have had my share of high-brow nonsense put into it, but then I won't say 'touché', as there is a whole world of difference between elaborate high-brow 'nonsensing' done for the love of the thing as opposed to the same carried out in the name of being considered as clever as the next man by the fellow 'art connoisseurs' :J

[narfforc]

I couldn't care less what the snobbish Lit-Crit's of today think, let alone their dinosaur brethren of yore did. I wouldn't be at all surprised that now Tolkien has removed all the boundaries he faced in 1961, that they won't at some stage get gooey-eyed with Rowling.