Journal: The Tolkien Comparison

This is also from the department of nobody cares but me. Don't expect this to be a trend. Just what I need. Turn this journal into nothing more than a list of things I'm feeling cranky about. I should take comfort in the fact that at least I'm ranting about something rather than just letting the website lay fallow. At least the audiobook is posting on a semi-regular basis again.

I think I wrote about this somewhere, but I can't remember where. I don't think I've written about it on my own little website. This is a problem inherent to having a presence on miscellaneous social networking sites. And, not much of a presence at that. Oh, well.

The thing that gets me about epic fantasy novels and especially epic fantasy series is that they always seem to get compared to Tolkien. This comparison usually takes the form of how the latest and greatest epic fantasy is so much better than Tolkien. Of course, the epics most likely to get this favorable comparison are the long ones. Multi-volume sprawling epics that just go on and on forever.

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