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Originally Posted by execrable
Interesting viewpoint - by what criteria do you so quickly rubbish Tolkien and Dick? We're all allowed an opinion but sometimes we might have to explain our views - I'm asking you to explain why you think Tolkien is an "amateur."
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Possibly because his writing style is so "un-novelic". I like it myself - the flowery phrasing, the archaic constructions, and the deep background. Like one of the editors said in the movie commentary track, one of the biggest and arguably most significant battles of the whole story, the Ents attack on Isengard, is only vaguely detailed, and only in a weak narrative flashback by one of the Hobbits. The main villain of the whole story, Sauron, is never "met" or even really described.
I never noticed any of these things until they were pointed out to me - I think it all works, but I concede that in technical terms it's not written "well".
-dale