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A comment on Is Tolkien Actually Any Good? (2003). Parent comment

Re:Is Tolkien Actually Any Good? (2003) by crux on Sunday May 30, 2010 @11:55AM (#1390635)
The author of this critique, more than once, refers to specific Tolkien passages and mentions which specific historical styles or texts these are pastiche of. Why do you think he doesn't understand Tolkien's field of study?
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Re:Is Tolkien Actually Any Good? (2003) by gcv on Sunday May 30, 2010 @04:18PM (#1391049)
Because he repeatedly used the words "bad writing" without providing any support for the assertion. He just provided sample texts — sample texts which read to me like translations of Old Saxon and Old Norse. This implied to me that he was saying that Anglo-Saxon texts are inherently "bad writing."
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