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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-11-23 03:21 pm

[ SECRET POST #2882 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2882 ⌋

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[personal profile] xenomantid 2014-11-24 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
Brooks and McKiernan were the specific authors I was thinking of when I wrote those two sentences. By "authors who tried to follow [Tolkien]," I meant "authors who tried to effectively rewrite Lord of the Rings."

I agree that the problem is not that those books exist but that certain business decisions in the 1970s created a glut of repetitive epic fantasy. Fortunately, it seems to me that the backlash against Yet Another Medieval European Fantasy has been sufficient to create a greater number of more original works in the fantasy genre.