(urth) ot-my mini review of Children of Hurin

Jesper Svedberg jsvedberg at gmail.com
Mon Apr 16 02:23:32 PDT 2007


don doggett skrev:
> It is not fantasy, except in the
> sense that the fantasy genre has often been a lesser
> (though the impulse is understandable) attempt to
> emulate his work.

In what way is it not fantasy? It's set in a world that's different from 
ours and is filled with magic and stuff, right? Both the type of 
literature and the word "fantasy" as a label for it existed before 
Tolkien, so I'm unsure why his stuff should be something else.


   // Jesper



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