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Tolkien is back from his pipe-smoky grave, and now it’s not only the elbows of that tweed jacket being eroded. It’s Harry’s sales. Children of Hurin has pushed Harry out of the number one spot on Amazon and is ready to a stick a balrog up the arse end of anyone who gets in the way. I may actually read it. I drew a line in the sand at the Silmarilion years ago. I said, if I get through this, I swear I’ll quit fantasy for good. And I did, for a time. But now a shadow thought long gone rises in Angmar and the forces of darkness are once again descending to creep upon the lands of free men… Stop it! Stop! What’s happening to me? I like literary fiction! Someone get me 500 ccs of Ishiguro, STAT!
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April 19th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
The fantasy gets more fantastical when you realize the competition for top spot is between a book written from beyond the grave and a book that is yet to be published. It leads the average living author to consider some challenging options.
April 20th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
JRR Tolkien and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ are synonymous with a remarkable sense of knowing how to entice
the reader, adult and children alike into believing in Frodo and Gandalf and my cross country running
childhood days were filled with this inspiration to glance over at undergrowths to see if I could
spot that ring.
Hence a re-birth of the quest to find that ring and his other novels, is tantamount to a timeless vision by
Tolkien to create a novel of great standing. In a similar vein, JK Rowling’s Harry Potter is such a great
character that analysing his character and the significance of his quest against ‘bad influences’ in the adult world
is more profound than I think we see.
April 22nd, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Alex: Your comment totally made my day. Just thought I’d mention that.