How To Use Tolkien In A Sentence
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In Tolkien's world, the only good orc is a dead orc.
Archive 2009-07-01
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I think if I entitled a post "Live Nude Tolkien," I'd be the most visiting blog in the 'spere.
At least I didn't slight Tolkien
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Tolkien, a devout Catholic, was a combat veteran of World War I, and acutely sensitive to the murderous nihilism of modern warfare.
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Perrin says in the essay that he believes Williams en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Williams_ (UK_writer) is less famous than Tolkien or C.S. Lewis partly because he wrote fiction only for adults, not for adults and children: “All Hallows Eve will never be a TV special – or if it is, it will be so debased and vulgarized as to make most TV specials of great books seem works of astonishing fidelity.”
2008 October 23 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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That they make them without blushing is a sign of the power of Tolkien, and the overwhelming quality of his prose.
Infectious language
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Tolkien's guidance on the subject of hobbit skin tone is unclear, though according to The Complete Guide to Middle-earth he did specify that Harfoots, the most common type of hobbit, were "browner" than other groups.
Extra claims she was rejected for Hobbit role for looking 'too brown'
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Most interesting of all, Oxford don JRR Tolkien stayed at the college in the 1940s while his eldest son was studying for the priesthood.
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So I'm at a loss at how this legislation would "inhibit" anybody's "religious freedom". tolkien_fan73 Says: paleolib: I had the same thought:
Think Progress
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It is the first of a trilogy of films based on JRR Tolkien's books.
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Making use of the whiteboards that were ubiquitous in the hallways and conference rooms in the Googleplex, he scrawled the phrase over and over in his distinct calligraphic style, a sans-serif, Tolkien-esque script.
In the Plex
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It was clear to him that Tolkien was a literary genius.
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Tolkien tapped into his vast wealth of knowledge concerning mythologies to recast the Christian Mythos in terms non-believers can understand.
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Most readers will be aware that "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" began its life as a tale invented to amuse the three Liddell girls during a boat trip, but it may come as a revelation—or not, depending on your taste—to hear that J.R.R. Tolkien had to force-feed his children nightly installments of "The Hobbit.
Writers at Work, Seeking a Spark
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In Dreamsongs Volume I, Martin confesses that he would never be able to write as well as one of his childhood idols, J.R. R. Tolkien, and yet has now been labeled as the “American Tolkien” of our time.
“Dreamsongs, Volume I” by George R. R. Martin (Bantam, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog
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It is not to Tolkien's prose that we respond; it is to his fecund, delighted, heroic imagination, his unerring moral compass, his hold to the idea of the timeless struggle between good and evil which gave birth to an entire genre.
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Tolkien probably did not approve, thinking this mere flattery.
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So far as I know, this particular Finnish polysyllable never made it into any of Tolkien's languages.
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The men in suites will look at Eragon's failure and proclaim that fantasy is dead, without ever once considering that maybe John Malkovich is a poor substitute for Ian McKellen and that cheaply CGI'd Dragons are no match for the decade plus of painstaking, loving, obsession that went into bringing Tolkien to the screen.
Archive 2006-12-01
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While MIÉVILLE doesn't recall his past harsh criticism of TOLKIEN, he nevertheless tempers and balances it out by complimenting the Professor and giving him acclaim, where acclaim is due.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Maybe it would be appropriate to add one more element to the four Tolkien enumerates.
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JRR Tolkien, after all, was a pioneering scholar of Anglo-Saxon poetry and wrote a definitive reinterpretation of the epic poem.
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Tolkien admitted, ‘My ‘Sam Gamgee’ is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself.’
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Maybe it would be appropriate to add one more element to the four Tolkien enumerates.
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One is reminded of the unmannerly exclamation, sometimes attributed to C.S. Lewis, that interrupted one of Tolkien's readings of "The Lord of the Rings" to his Oxford colleagues: "Oh no, not another f---ing elf!
Writers at Work, Seeking a Spark
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In Tolkien 's mind , he wasn't just creating a fantasy world, but ancient mythology for England.
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The key to the success of the films, as is true of Tolkien's books, is the focus on the small stories, the personal and emotional details, in the midst of world-shaking cataclysmic events.
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Worldbuilding: The ambiguity in the term "worldbuilding" resides in the fact that it was coined for the craft of creating ordinate realities in the manner of Tolkien's highly methodical "subcreation," largely a matter of blocking, bolstering, gilding and bumphing, but has come to be applied not just to worldscapes generated by worldblazing but to any sufficiently foreign and/or complex fictive milieu, even to milieus that are largely mimetic.
Archive 2009-12-01
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I was an active member of the Tolkien Society at the time of the first film.
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Christopher Tolkien has drawn a new map for the book, a tipped-in foldout on sturdy paper that should serve as an exemplar for all other publishers of books containing maps.
Procrustes the publisher
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Or maybe it was just Tolkien, sickened by the barbarousness of the 20th century, yearning for the certainties of a lost England that possibly never existed anyway.
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Not only did they pull off an immensely difficult logistical task, they also managed to attract and please three very different target audiences: mainstream folks who wouldn't know a hobbit from a bantha, hardcore Tolkien fans that were prepared to comb through every frame of film in search of the tiniest deviation from their Holy Texts, and critics who generally frown on anything that doesn't involve grainy photography, trailer park settings, or subtitles.
Simple Tricks and Nonsense: Oscar thoughts
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But I am not quarreling with the fact that the reviewer doesn't like the book - he's perfectly free not to - or even with the idea that if there were some sort of objective, platonic ideal of a best books list, Tolkien would not be on it.
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For those of you unfamiliar with J.R.R. Tolkien, prepare to enter a land where humans share the earth with goblins, trolls, elves, dwarves, dragons and, of course, hobbits.
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Maybe it would be appropriate to add one more element to the four Tolkien enumerates.
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Just this year came the news that a big wodge of Tolkien manuscript had turned up in a carton in the Bodleian Library.
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Again, unlike the Christian apologist C.S. Lewis or the "high fantasist" J.R.R. Tolkien, Huxley was not a mythologist or a romantic Medievalist who depreciated the Renaissance.
Jonathan D. Moreno: Brave New World Turns 80
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Tolkien was said to have based the battle scenes on his own experiences in the trenches of the First World War.
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Tolkien's point on the wider sweep of imagination aside, I think there's something in the assertion that Beowulf uses materials "preserved from a day already changing and passing" to bring down though generations the story we claim we know.
Ruins and Poetry: Beowulf
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If only Brian Herbert would follow the example of Christopher Tolkien and publish the notes along with other commentaries.
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Now an international, multi-ethnic, and cross-disciplinary group of scholars investigates the meaningful ways in which fantasy and Native America intersect, examining classics by American Indian authors such as Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Marmon Silko, as well as non-Native fantasists such as H.P. Lovecraft, J.R.R. Tolkien, and J.K. Rowling.
TOC: Intersection of Fantasy & Native America edited by Amy H. Sturgis and David D. Oberhelman
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For those of you unfamiliar with J.R.R. Tolkien, prepare to enter a land where humans share the earth with goblins, trolls, elves, dwarves, dragons and, of course, hobbits.
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I cannot think of a film project more deserving than Lord of the Rings, even if they did muff crucial sections of Tolkien's text.
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These boys from California probably thought it was bit of a wizzo idea to take their name from Tolkien's masterpiece for your up and coming heavy metal rock band.
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Tolkien could have given a lecture about all these at any time.
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Some people sneer at a metaphorical reading of scripture and Tolkien himself was opposed to allegory as a rhetorical form.
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How did this elitist come to write a set of stories that at the last count have sold some 80m copies and are about to come to the cinema screens with as much fanfare and hype as Tolkien's Lord of the Rings received?
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Even though success was welcomed, it was also a time of difficulty for Tolkien who described the enormous pressure from people who expected him to fulfill a role that he was not available to fill.
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These oath-takings are critical to Tolkien's mythologising of the past because they reproduce the feudal bonds that a vassal pays to his liege lord.
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It was clear to him that Tolkien was a literary genius.
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this newspaper's scholarly report, which stated that, inasmuch as Tolkien hinted at hobbit skin tone, Harfoots were "browner" than Fallohides.
The Guardian World News
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I know it's not how Tolkien saw orcs, but I was raised in a world where the necessity of predators and predation is recognized and acknowledged.
Superversive: Website update
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Just how you managed to work "inkling" into a discussion that started out with Tolkien and Lewis!
Making Light: Open thread 136
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"[Tolkien] is proof that faith and enchantment can go hand in hand, that our imaginations don't have to starve."
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A fictional character from Tolkien's Hobbit trilogy, Gollum is a thin, pale, wandering creature, who was enslaved by a magic ring that was made by Suaron, the Dark Lord of Mordor and the Lord of the Rings.
If only he'd had professional help
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If you compare the futhorc given above, you will see that Tolkien has altered some the rune shapes.
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However Tolkien admired the aesthetic impulse towards good beneath the pride and sorrow.
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He also has some infatuation with Tolkien, as might be guessed from the name, lives in California, and has a fondness for taunting snowbound Minnesotans with photos of blooming flowers.
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The Anglo-Saxon futhorc used by Tolkien has 31 distinct characters, some of which have variants.
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In Tolkien's mythical Middle Earth, evil is personified by Sauron, a dark wraith whose shadow reaches out for the one ring of power he can use to bring every living creature under his dominion.
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Tolkien was more preoccupied with his invention of an artificial mythology than with character development.
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Particularly noteworthy is The Road Goes On Forever, a songbook of words and sheet music by Tolkien and Donald Swann.
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The really interesting thing is that the mythology Tolkien borrowed from was far more sophisticated in its outlook than the christianised version he made of it.
The Real Fantastic Stuff, an essay by Richard K. Morgan - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games
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At this point, I think, we need to distinguish purely excusatory "fat fantasy" where the worldbuilding is largely irrelevant, superficial and derivative (the classic Tolkien clone) from explicatory "fat fantasy" where the worldbuilding is integral, layered and innovative (as in Tolkien himself).
The Aesthetics of Fat
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Yet JRR Tolkien wasn't crazy about French, but loved the musical quality of Welsh but not Irish Gaelic, and once wrote to his son that simply hearing a list of words of the Old Gothic language pronounced aloud could "move him to tears".
Languagehat.com: CACOPHONY?
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Tolkien tapped into his vast wealth of knowledge concerning mythologies to recast the Christian Mythos in terms non-believers can understand.
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Even though success was welcomed, it was also a time of difficulty for Tolkien who described the enormous pressure from people who expected him to fulfill a role that he was not available to fill.
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A scholar of Old English, Tolkien argued that Beowulf should be read for its literary merits.
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I greatly feared - and still slightly do fear - that this creature presages a descent into a fantasy nerdfest of Tolkienesque pomposity and orotundity.
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Tolkien needed a new image for ultimate bravery, one milder but not weaker than Beorhtwold's.
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The dead marshes, with their unburied soldiers could be seen as the First World War trenches where Tolkien fought.
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Tolkien's Sun sextiles Mars and Jupiter and makes a wide orb sextile to Uranus.
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But unlike many fantasy writers today, Tolkien really tapped into mythic roots.
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Tolkien, in his history of the elves, would not wish to go against what he accepted as doctrine universally true.
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They must have fixed this in the last two weeks, because it used to look like this: Stopwords Are Not Match Words For example, searching on the Tolkien Gateway wiki for the words elves well come is a problem, because the words: well and come are on the stopword list from hell.
Classifieds, Shopping Malls and More - Craigs List News and Articles
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Evil, for Tolkien, was non-being, and the destruction of evil was annihilation.
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This year I discovered the books of Charles Williams, a contemporary of JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis but kind of forgotten now.
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In Tolkien's world, evil is the antithesis of creativity, and is dependent on destruction and ruin for its basis.
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Perhaps Wood insists on finding such an explicit blueprint for Christian life in Tolkien's book because his primary intention is catechetical, but I suspect such an approach is counterproductive even in this sphere.
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The idea of a halfling is a mythological one, beyond copyright protection. unless Tolkien was the first person to come up with hobbits - but I think the tradition is older than him
POW! WHAM! Marvel sues NCSoft
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Claudia is confused by the orch-folk tag because she visualizes the Tolkien orcs, rather than orchestral.
The Magnetic Fields: 'Orch-Folk,' Played By Hand
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Tolkien's world feels physically huge but also sparsely inhabited, in many ways--none of the story of Lord of the Rings takes place in the kind of entrepot-for-adventure that most MMOG towns or population centers become.
The Liabilities of Licenses
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She designed a novelty cake using a scene from the Lord of the Rings film based on the novel of the same name by J.R. Tolkien for inspiration.
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For most authors, finding a publisher is a Tolkienian adventure.
June 2006
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Like Herodotus's exciting account of Leonidas and his 300 spunky Spartans holding up the entire Persian army at Thermopylae, this is story-telling so florid and fantastical that Tolkien himself might have written it.
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You will soon be carrying sacks of hate mail to my flat; I know from previous experience that one criticises Tolkien at one's peril.
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Harris's great skill lies in pulling back every time her creation veers towards the portentous, that is to say the Tolkienesque ....
Runemarks: Summary and book reviews of Runemarks by Joanne Harris.
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Peter Jackson can re-choreograph his Tolkien opus into solid Middle-earth entertainment by seconding the talents of Michael Flatley.
Cinema’s New Double Act
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J.R.R. Tolkien, on the other hand, was so very much a man of letters that he did not even attempt to publish any of his fiction until a reader at Allen and Unwin chanced to hear of The Hobbit and pried the typescript out of his hands.
Moorcock, Saruman and the Dragon’s Tail
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Tolkien can be seen as the archetype, constructing languages, histories, location in exquisite detail for his Middle Earth.
Approaching the blank page – part 4 « Write Anything
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For these operas, Wagner mined the same vein of Nordic myth that J.R.R. Tolkien used a century later for his own Ring epic.
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J.R.R. Tolkien perfectly summed up the critical reaction to his fiction in a clerihew:
The little old daddy from Arizona
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The book is quarter-bound in red with grey board that has stamped into it in red and gold foil Tolkien's Ring and Eye of Sauron symbol.
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As he unravels the origins of Tolkien's work, Shippey goes into great philological detail about the origins of words.
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As a result of this literary pre-knowledge many people were eager to tell us just how and in what ways the films have dared to deviate from the authority of Tolkien's original.
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Not yet on the list but I must borrow / buy: The Ring of Words, by three senior editors of the OED, who talk about Tolkien's contributions to the Dictionary and rather more interestingly to me about certain individual words used in Tolkien's fiction attercop, hobbit, Smeagol, and more.
Plenty books..... ah, books....
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Tolkien is conventionally seen as an antimodernist figure.
Times, Sunday Times
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Attempts to filmically infuse this material with a Tolkien-esque sweep and drive will fail, as the thudding Prince Caspian — the second adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia series — failed: the intimacy evaporated, the pageantry became stultifying, the audience went zzzz.
Sex and the Single Wizard
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Jackson took some artistic licence in adapting Tolkien's novels into a movie trilogy.
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Until the era of "medievalism," in which modern representations of the medieval came to be considered fair game for medieval scholars, Tolkien's fiction was not a proper subject for a medieval scholar to study -- not because he was producing fantasy, but because he clearly falls into the modern era.
Defending the Tolkien Snobs
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As a classicist, Tolkien was fascinated by the gaps in history.
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MIÉVILLE concludes his article in a lenient, mannerly way: There are plenty of other reasons to be grateful to Tolkien, of course -- and reasonable reasons to be ticked off at him, too: critique, after all has its place.
China Miéville on J.R.R. Tolkien
