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   From: giles@poetic.com   
      
   Nicholas Young wrote:   
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   > "Troels Forchhammer"  wrote in message   
   > news:Xns9DBBDB3F63EFAT.Forch@130.133.4.11...   
   >> 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 ;-)   
   >   
      
   Yes, I have to say that most Tolkien imitators fail utterly.....the   
   closest in feel is Kay in my view, though Kay is also using his own   
   voice to tell his tales....but I think he gets closer to the real spirit   
   of Tolkien than most others.  It might be interesting to compile a list   
   of authors others think capture "tolkienian spirit" in their   
   novels....not your favorites per se, but those authors you think get   
   Tolkien.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)