Ser Scot A Ellison

So?

Huh, Sauron is more a force of nature than a character and is so greatly reduced by the destruction of his primary tool he will never be a controling force again. Or did you think someone else was “the Lord of the Rings”?

Well, that’s one definition of change. But even there he’s wrong. Boromir, Denethor, Smeagol, Theoden, and others die. Disliking an author’s choices with character and story is literally a matter of opinion.

Mr. Moorcock’s opinions of Professor Tolkien are well known, but remain... opinions.

Then perhaps Tolkien simply isn't your cup of tea. That doesn't make his work objectively "bad".

You really seem to mistake opinion for fact. @BloodyJollyRoger

We’re ar 23 pages on the last Tolkien thread. Asthetics are fundamentally subjective. FYI.

The boy who steals too much.

BOOOOOOOKKKKKKSSSSSS!!!!

If some jackass suggests finishing the series as a game I’m going to lose my cool. Books. We want to read books.

Peace Talks from Jim Butcher’s “Dresden Files”.

Hope this turns out to be true. It means two long overdue books to be delivered this year.

Thank you. That’s better than nothing.

I've done some googling to see if there is any news on the manuscript that Lynch turned in earlier this year and I've found nothing. I'm hoping someone else's google foo is better than mine. Anyone have news?

Where all the planets they visited turn out to be in the American/Canadian Pacific Northwest?

The Eldren, as a fallen (we suppose) technological advanced civilization, are fascinating to me. Their massive constructions with a seemingly artistic bent. I’d love to know more about them.

Any word on a publication date for The Thorn of Emberlain?

I like that hypothesis.

I rather like the vagueness. Were there humans, or other sentient beings, in Osten Ard to witness the arrival of the Ked’ya from, elsewhere, as in Bakker’s series? Is there a frame of reference to perceive “space” or travel from another planet?

That is possible. However, I believe the mention of “great ships” and “Navigation” suggests space travel.

Given the population concentration that appears to be in Nabban I’ve never really understood how Erykenland has managed to maintain political control over Nabban?

I did like TWMF (with the exception of the fairy sex portion of the book) I enjoy Rothfuss’s prose quite a lot. I also enjoyed EoG. It isn’t a modern “grimdark” novel that pervades much of Fantasy literature but I really enjoyed how Williams has deepened the existing world and how he has (as the review someone posted at the end of the prior thread pointed out) put a big twist on the “happy ending” people complained about at the completion of the prior trilogy. It’s a good book.

I have to question your taste. I throughly enjoyed Empire of Grass.

I liked the whole thing but Morgan’s story improves significantly when he meets a Sithi.