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Originally Posted by Kattermole
Reading this thread with great pleasure, but could I just mention, Terry Brooks was, I believe, the first to write "in the tradition of" Tolkein. For many Tolkein fans, Brooks was water in the desert.
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"Poisoned oasis in the desert" is closer to it. Brooks may have been the first writer claimed by his publisher to write "in the tradition of" Tolkien. But most Tolkien fans I knew found Brooks sadly lacking at best. If Tolkien was cane sugar, Brooks was artificial sweetener with a nasty chemical aftertaste and no nutritional value whatever.
The folks I've encountered who loved Brooks tended to be teenage kids. They had mediocre vocabularies and had read too little else to have any meaningful standard of comparison.
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Dennis