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Re:Is Tolkien Actually Any Good? (2003) by ErrantX on Saturday May 29, 2010 @05:57PM (#1389348)
Tolkein is certainly not the best writer; but on the scale of fantasy writing he is still near the top.

He always saved it for me by having such a wide and soaring vision of middle earth and then delivering it.

The silmarillion is horrible though :-)

Re:Is Tolkien Actually Any Good? (2003) by stcredzero on Saturday May 29, 2010 @10:41PM (#1389781)
I just read The Silmarillion as a long extended appendix of LotR.