Bored of the Rings

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

There is even a Pynchon mention, which Otto has snipped! Believe it or
not...

Mark


--- Otto <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:

(snip) One of Shippey's declared reasons for making
> so
> grandiose a claim for Tolkien is that "the dominant literary mode of
> the
> twentieth century has been the fantastic," and Tolkien is the
> dominant
> figure in fantasy fiction. (...) No, the only genre of which Tolkien
> stands
> as representative is the sword-and-sorcery novel.(snip)

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