Did Lord of the Rings Ruin Fantasy?

Or did the writers? (Naw, it was the advent of the d20. Damn you Gary Gygax!)





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It's all Robert Jordan's fault. Damn you Moraine Sedai!

"The Wen on the Arse of Fantasy Literature"

Weird Fiction uberkind China Miévelle goes after Tolkien.




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Are Hobbits the New Crack?

Is Tolkien too popular for his own good? I suspect he'd say "Why, my dear fellow, yes!"


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Did Peter Jackson Get LOTR Wrong?

The Scotsman on Tolkien's classic.



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Article raises an interesting point regarding the modernist underpinnings of Tolkien’s book, but I begin to wonder about the analysis when the writer starts using phrases like “satirical whimsy” to describe the party at the start of the book. Last time I checked not much satire in the Lord of the Rings, at all...

Also a bit of a dodgy interpretation of the War’s influence on the book. Tolkien himself in his introduction goes to some lengths to discourage such a notion.

Only in America

A teenager and his recluse family strike it big with a fantasy bestseller. I want to be bitter and cynical about this, but ah hell, good for them.



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Those crazy homeschoolers, eh? So backward, so out of touch, so inbred and kooky. Who woulda thunk...

You better get Jonas writing, KK....

Desperate to Escape Your Weird Survivalistish Family?

Write a bad fantasy book.



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"Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."

Tolkien's hole up for sale. (God, I've always wanted to write that...)



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The Bible just isn't as bloodthirsty as Lord of the Rings
Given that I'm German and read Lord of the Rings 13 times as a child, this comes as no surprise to me.


In a national project that mirrored the BBC's The Big Read, the German public placed the Lord of the Rings at the top of their most loved literature. The list of prized publications, in which the Bible ranked second, offers a glimpse into a German public which, according to some, is desperate to escape its "current air of pessimism."

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Fantasy overview
The Boston Review takes a look at the state of modern fantasy novels (fantasy being the likes of Harry Potter and Jonathan Strange in this case).

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The Silmarillion revisited
Salon thinks Tolkien's bible of Middle Earth is worth another look. Not quite sure why the article talks about John Gardner like he's alive though. (Salon link)

By virtue of aesthetics alone, this new volume of "The Silmarillion" should bring a great many more readers into fuller appreciation of not only the book but also Tolkien's universe at large. Exquisitely illustrated by Ted Naismith, who worked on Robert Foster's "Complete Guide to Middle Earth," this new edition is the model of what a 21st century, ancient cosmological text should look like, if that makes any sense. I feel almost silly for saying it, but it's a really pretty book: From the typescript to the spacious layout -- not to mention the extremely useful appendixes of genealogical tables, notes on Elvish pronunciation, indexes of names, and linguistic elements of Tolkien's two Elvish tongues -- the publishers have done well to give Tolkien's saga a tangible feeling of the momentous mythological history its author meant it to be.

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Tolkien vs. Lewis
Cage match!

CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien were the closest of friends, one struggling to make his fantasy world of Middle Earth a literary reality, the other trying to convince friends his first book about Narnia deserved to be published.

But new research has revealed that their friendship was riven by the most bitter and personal of rows on everything from literature to religion and even their choice of spouse.

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Boiled cabbage?

Speaking of inferiority complexes... The British fantasy scene, explored in context of the reissue of Watership Down.


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Demons and Devils, Creatures of Hell...
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I just reread His Dark Materials, all the Harry Potters, the Chronicles of Narnia... and I'm thinking I should move on to something new.

Recommendations please? I'm new to the world of fantasy, but as long as it's well-written, I'll give it a go.

Thanks!