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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
strange show? live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident, right out of a comic book.


if you thought Stan Lee, JMS, Joss, Frank Miller, Alan Moore wrote funny stuff wait until you get a load of this guy

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Lord of the Rings was my experience in that. Then a bunch of Clancy movies, which were far less than the books. Sure, decent enough, but not the same.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Lord of the Rings was my experience in that. Then a bunch of Clancy movies, which were far less than the books. Sure, decent enough, but not the same.

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If you liked Lord of the Rings, have you read The Deed of Paksennarion?

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Lord of the Rings was my experience in that. Then a bunch of Clancy movies, which were far less than the books. Sure, decent enough, but not the same.

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If you liked Lord of the Rings, have you read The Deed of Paksennarion?

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Nope, never heard of it. After reading The Hobbit, and then LOTR's trilogy, long ago, I found myself wanting more similar type tales. I tried reading a few , but they all lacked Tolkien's depth and passion , not to mention his imagination. In short, I viewed them as pale imitations, more like Tolkien wanna-bees.

As I look back, part of me thinks that I might have been too hasty, and that I should have given other authors more of a chance.

But then as Christopher Tolkien has put more of his father's unpublished work, I've come to realize that , sword and sorcery books are fine enough , but there's no replacing Tolkien. The man created not just realms and characters, but entire languages FOR those people !

I tried reading Harry Potter, for example, and while I did enjoy the first 3-4 books, I couldn't help but notice some devices which were present in Tolkien's books as well. I became to see J.K. Rowling as more of a hack than how the rest of the world viewed her. But heck, even Tolkien used familiar devices. But with him, he was able to formulate a backstory to everything which added, more than merely took from those existing themes.

Hope that answers your question.

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