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- From: alderson@cisco.com (Rich Alderson)
- Subject: Re: Fandom
- In-Reply-To: dmeek@ccu.umanitoba.ca ()
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.191951.3897@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Originator: alderson@leland.Stanford.EDU
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: alderson@cisco.com (Rich Alderson)
- Organization: Cisco Systems (MIS)
- References: <-v#@byu.edu> <C0xK22.CHC@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 19:19:51 GMT
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- In article <C0xK22.CHC@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, dmeek@ccu () writes:
- >
- > "The Fionavar Tapestry" fantasy trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay rivals LOTR
- >in depth.Many critics have compared this series to LOTR because of its
- >depth, and some have said it is the best work of fantasy since LOTR.
-
- What most critics mean when they compare a book or set of related books to
- Tolkien is that they haven't encountered any other work that they can think of
- to compare it to, or that they think the reading public is likely to have
- encountered.
-
- I have not read Kay's books--simply for lack of time. Ditto Eddings.
-
- But one of the things that keeps me from making time is critical comparisons to
- _LotR_, because I know that the critics are probably being lazy, or intellectu-
- ally dishonest.
- --
- Rich Alderson 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take
- such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
- --J. R. R. Tolkien,
- alderson@leland.stanford.edu _The Lost Road_
-