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   "Troels Forchhammer"  wrote in message   
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   > In message    
   > Morgoth's Curse  spoke these   
   > staves:   
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   >> Which did he prefer (or at least considered better than anything   
   >> else Williams wrote?)   
   >   
   > He does say at one point that he disliked Williams' characters except   
   > one 'Lord Gro'   
      
   Quick correction: Lord Gro is a character in E.R.Eddison's _The Worm   
   Ouroborous_, not in anything by Williams.  Your quotation rings a bell,   
   though: I believe that Tolkien did say precisely that when talking about   
   Eddison.   
      
   Tolkien was by his own admission, as I think someone else quoted: "a man of   
   limited sympathies (though well aware of them)."  He would probably have   
   disliked most of the genre in which his work is placed, including that small   
   number of works that Tolkien-lovers consider close in stature to the   
   master - not always the same set, of course ;-)   
      
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