h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just read your bit in the Tolkien forum: agree with every word you've said (as usual!)

Great minds etc etc... (swells with pride )

I've been avoiding the Tolkien page as I had a feeling it would make me cross: and it did! I doubt I'd have been half so coherent in rebuttal.

I do find it funny to find that people are discovering Tolkien backwards as it were, through later fantasy (of whatever type) aah... I remember the days when there only was JRRT and that was hard enough to find...

Holdon: I've just remembered: you're so young won't won't even remember the Silmarillion being published - right? Aaaatgh!

Well, not exactly remember it being published per se, but I read LOTR when I was 9, and then devoured Tolkien remorselessly thereafter. (I hope this doesn't depress you at all! )

I agree completely about the JRRT page being bloody annoying - some people just *don't* get it, do they?

Reading my last posting back, it sounds like I'm a grandmother! I was a year or so younger than you when I first read LotR, just in time for the Silmarillion coming out.

I couldn't believe it when someone said that Harry Potter magic was more consistent than Middle Earth! Ha!

Uh-oh, she's off...

Right, I think I'm going to log off until tomorrow (running out of money at EasyEverything)... See ya 'round...

BTW I've not read any Harry Potter, mainly because I'm sure I'll hate it. Is this a fair premonition?

Read Harry Potter - if only to critque it. It is often: cardboard, unimaginative, crude (not in the rude sense) two-dimensional, clunky, clumsy and cutesy. There are one or two good ideas, but it is mostly infuriatingly 'nearly there'.

Do you know that feeling you get talking to people who haven't read JRRT but think that the weak fantasy rip-offs they've read are good? It may get you like that...

But...it's easy-to-read bubblegum: I won't but it, but I will borrow it.

Be seeing you!

Like the rework on the page, BTW...

I have promised myself that I will *not* get involved in the JRRT debate, because I am sure I would find it hard not to fly off the handle, but I am still taking a vicarious pleasure in agreeing with every word you post in that forum...

Thankee, ma'am.

I'm trying my best to be the oil on troubled waters in that forum. It's not easy; these pro- and anti-JRRT camps seem to take issue with whatever the other lot says. I'm all in favour of critical discussion of LotR, but praising it to the rafters or splitting the most insignificant of hairs is not quite what I had in mind...

...not to mention reserachers having a go at each other in the process...