Tolkein is an excellent example why I usually dismiss literary critics/critiques
HyogaRott Send a noteboard - 23/01/2012 05:57:51 PM
As you explained so well, Tolkein's work was considered not quite up to snuff, and a interesting curiosity by the "experts". HOWEVER, it actually turned out to be one of the most influential collections of prose in the past 100 years. This is so often the case that I have very little regard for the self-proclaimed experts, and what is defined as a classic. Literary experts are actually only an expert on what was. They judge something new, by how its construction compares to something old, with no regard to how it may impact and excite future authors and readers. Often, they even hold a works popularity with the masses against it. Even though it is the popularity of an author's work that can (may/will) direct the future of writing.
Oddly enough, art critics err in the opposite direction, often praising something solely because it is new, even if it has little to nothing unto itself that is praiseworthy.
Movie/play critics probably balance to two extremes the best, but it still all boils down to a person's opinion; and mine is the only opinion that is "right" for me.
Oddly enough, art critics err in the opposite direction, often praising something solely because it is new, even if it has little to nothing unto itself that is praiseworthy.
Movie/play critics probably balance to two extremes the best, but it still all boils down to a person's opinion; and mine is the only opinion that is "right" for me.
1961 Nobel Finalists: J.R.R. Tolkien
19/01/2012 09:27:46 AM
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It's difficult to assess Tolkien's relative merits then 51 years later.
19/01/2012 02:41:52 PM
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Yes, Edwardian prose does not thrill me
19/01/2012 02:58:00 PM
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Tolkein is an excellent example why I usually dismiss literary critics/critiques
23/01/2012 05:57:51 PM
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Tolkien. Please. You're doing your entire argument a disservice there. *NM*
23/01/2012 06:42:12 PM
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You can't dismiss his impact, even if you do not like his storytelling.
23/01/2012 07:40:19 PM
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That's an odd argument
23/01/2012 07:51:49 PM
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Not really
23/01/2012 10:35:39 PM
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Depends on what you see as the point of literature.
24/01/2012 08:14:07 AM
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