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Originally Posted by Geralt
China Mieville is an excellent representative of New Weird genre, which is influenced by Lovecraft.
Here's what he said about Tolkien:
Miéville works to move fantasy away from J. R. R. Tolkien's influence, which for him is stultifying and reactionary. He once described Tolkien as "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature."
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Jealousy can make you say a lot of weird things.
What made Tolkien's stuff so good is that he just didn't make up phrases in Elf (Elven?) or Dwarf (Dwarven?), he actually wrote the languages. I read somewhere that he had made six or seven languages by the time he was eight. He went carefully through his book to make the sure he had gotten the moon in the right part of the sky to fit in with the rest of his timeline, etc. -- which gave his story authenticity.