Tolkien and Asimov

[drigel]

There must be something. It seems that I am not the only one who loves those two authors, even those (like me) who ONLY likes these two authors and no one else. I can't quite put my finger on it - but still.

There is apparantly something to that - because Im that way too. Lots of stuff out there that is written well, but very few capture those rare elements in a sturdy enough bottle in such a way that transcends whatever milieu that happens to be popular at the time of publication.

And both effectively tell a very large, somewhat loose, but cohesive story over those time scales.

Definately a major factor for me - massive time scales.