Fantasy and the modern age

J.R.R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings saga is considered by many to be the penultimate literary accomplishment of the 20th century. David Brin analyzes the trilogy, its author, and its genre in an excellent essay on Salon.

Linked within the story is Brin’s similar approach to another bit of pop culture to which some of us have been exposed…

Posted over 23 years agoon December 17, 2002 - 8:38 PM and archived here at /blog/2002/2002-12-17-fantasy-and-the-modern-age/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2002/2002-12-17-fantasy-and-the-modern-age/ in both HTML and markdown.

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