ot-my mini review of Children of Hurin

Daniel D Jones · 16 Apr 2007, 22:20 · from 2007-April.txt.gz

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From: ddjones at riddlemaster.org (Daniel D Jones)
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:20:27 -0500
Subject: (urth) ot-my mini review of Children of Hurin
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On Monday 16 April 2007 17:57, Jesper Svedberg wrote:
> Never. He may be better, but that makes his stories GOOD fantasy, not a
> completely different genre. I can't believe that I have to defend the
> quality of modern fantasy on a Gene Wolfe mailing list of all places,
> since Wolfe more than anyone has proved that Tolkien is far from the
> end-all of fantasy literature. This is snobbism at its worst.

I suppose that the next time I write something about Shakespeare, I'll have to 
insist that his works are NOT plays.

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