Solicitr
Mithlond
Jun 15 2020, 5:38pm
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more than anything represents the narrowmindedness of midcentury critics and academics, with their 'modernism uber alles' creed; they were, through their own self-donned blinkers, incapable of perceiving Tolkien's greatness or whereof it consisted; he didn't color inside the then-approved lines (nothing new about this; just ask the shades of Charles Dickens and Henry Fielding).
It isn't a case of what seems to have arisen in tandem chronologically, boomer-driven academe attaching 'seriousness' to pop culture. Tolkien is, though I dislike the usage, "literature" as Coleridge would have recognized it, which is a whole 'nuther category from colleges classes in Batman or Buffy.
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Action sequences: War and Peace has 'em too.
(This post was edited by Solicitr on Jun 15 2020, 5:39pm)
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