And I was going to ask you to read John Dolan’s review of the Jackson films:

http://www.exile.ru/2004-April-22/kino_korner.html

and compare his perspective to those of the “hard fantasy” authors you talked about. Dolan says the most valuable thing about Tolkien’s imaginative world is precisely what’s sublime — “high, difficult, and anti-real” — about it.

Dolan, incidentally, is brilliant and nuts. Cf. his article “The Case for Nuclear Winter.”

But enough.

And I was going to ask you to read John Dolan’s review of the Jackson films:

http://www.exile.ru/2004-April-22/kino_korner.html

and compare his perspective to those of the “hard fantasy” authors you talked about. Dolan says the most valuable thing about Tolkien’s imaginative world is precisely what’s sublime — “high, difficult, and anti-real” — about it.

Dolan, incidentally, is brilliant and nuts. Cf. his article “The Case for Nuclear Winter.”

But enough.

It was a great visit. Maybe we can have you back some time, because I am interested to know what I think about the Silmarillion, and the rest of the Lost Tales corpus more generally.