B2MeM: Heh.

By graciously satisfying his readers’ insatiable curiosity in as many ways as possible, Tolkien puts himself at odds with many of today’s authors who, in an attempt to be ostentatiously arty and edgy, delight in leaving their readers with a sense of dramatic emptiness and thematic pointlessness. -- Leo Grin

I'm looking at *you*, Sera Gamble and Eric Kripke. (Of course, in SPN's case, it may not be deliberate, but still. Needs moar eucatastrophe.)


Part 3 of Grin's "Ennobling Fantasy of J. R. R. Tolkien" series, "Eucatastrophe," is now online here.