Christopher Tolkien to finish lost Middle Earth novel

[davem]

Originally Posted by Squatter

Anyway, since better people than I have pointed out the deficiencies of that article there remains little more for me to say than that Michael Drout promises to post on his site his own critique of Tolkien's style, which, since M.D. actually knows what he's talking about, should be worth a look. This pointless babble from News International I can do without: what isn't obvious or derivative in it is wrong.

Well, Drout's critique of Tolkien's style is up. http://wormtalk.blogspot.com/2007/04...-style-at.html
Not sure I agree with him actually. I don't think the descriptions of landscape/nature are at all excessive, & am I the only one who actually likes the fox?