>you are now realising the amount of self-proclaimed 'fantasy'

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>>9902211
grimbles approves

>>9902211
Martin is the real deal as far as being a fan boy. Tolkien was good but sad there hasn't been much creation beyond his shadow. As bad as it is at times, WoT is legitimately a master work as far as going beyond the influence of Tolkien

>>9902211
Too many people have read Tolkien as it is. So many fans of TLotR don't appreciate it's beauty in the slightest and enjoy a very shallow reading of a very rich and classical fiction.

>>9902247
tolkien's too dense

But they have watched the movies. It's the same thing, really

:^P

>>9902211
Am I the only one believing GRRM is milking money through delaying WoW?
He might just release it after 2 or 3 years and then he will pretend to write the last one until he dies, making enough money for himself and his "heirs"

>>9902443
>Am I the only one believing GRRM is milking money through delaying WoW?
It's not some sudden development, the man has been behind on deadlines since the 90s.

I don't blame him, I wouldn't want to write that drivel either. He must be bored out of his fucking skull.

What separates Tolkien from other fantasy writers? Originality?
I've never read western fantasy books so the more context you give me, the better.

>>9902935
Subtlety. TLotR is very classical in style. Most fantasy feels modern , and I mean that in a bad way.

>>9902935

WWII allegory

>>9903099
kill yourself

>>9902319
t. brainlet
>>9902935
He was writing contemporary to the Modernists. His explorations veered in the literal complete opposite direction of theirs though. Tolkein was interested in classical forms and narratives, while the Modernists were bent on rejecting them. He was a very controversial figure in literary circles, with many people outright disregarding him.

His work itself draws heavily from the epics of Spenser and Malory, and interacts with a portion of the Western canon that had been all but written off for being pre-Renaissance works that weren't Chaucer (ever notice that the Wasteland doesn't allude to Beowulf, despite referencing almost every other major work in the western canon). The idea of mythopoesis that Blake had previously developed in his poetry was taken to extremes in Tolkien's works, which had not only fully developed cosmologies, but histories and linguistic traditions.

>>9902247
People still defend wot? Do you also believe eddings produced "legitimately a master work"?