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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Jezter" data-source="post: 1300082" data-attributes="member: 1015">Then we must have different opinions of what good writing is.  Because I define good writing as being enjoyable to read.  And I would definately classify Howard and Tolkien both as good writing.And Tolkien's books are full of bad poetry, long discourses on events that happened years before events in the books and have little to no impact on the main plotline, and inconsistant pacing.Personally, I'd rather read a paragraph-long description of a "nubile slave girl" than a long poem about an elven king that died ages ago.Oh, I don't deny that characters like Gollum and Sauruman change a lot over the course of the book.  Things like that happen when you have a 1000+ page story comapared to a 50-page short story.Villains don't have to be full of conflict and turmoil for me to like them.I'm pretty sure I am reading the same books you are.  I just never saw Sauron as a particularly memorable villain.  The aforementioned Gollum and Sauruman stick out much more vividly in my memory.I don't care to.  I've tried on three seperate occasions to trudge my way through the Silmarillion, and every time I was never able to finish it.Cool!  I didn't know that the Conan stories were finally being reprinted in America.  Sounds like I'll have to order myself some copies. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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