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<blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 1101719" data-attributes="member: 149">Hmm, I've read a good 90% of Moorcock's books, but never really got the feeling he had a distain for Tolkien. Is that something from some of his biographical material? I do know that he was very much an &quot;Angry Young Man&quot; especially when he was writing the Elric books and that Elric was specifically designed to be the opposite of your classic &quot;Conan&quot; style, strong mighty hero. I can see him writing in rejection of the classic archtypes, that is essentially the source of Elric's origin. However I doubt that the Christian propgandizing in especially CS Lewis's stuff was much of a motivation. I suspect it was far more a case of simply wanting to smash that which had gone before as was such a motivation for so many others in the 60's.I am curious though where your information comes from, I have never done much biographical research on Moorecock, so my gut feelings may well be entirely wrong.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rackhir, post: 1101719, member: 149"] Hmm, I've read a good 90% of Moorcock's books, but never really got the feeling he had a distain for Tolkien. Is that something from some of his biographical material? I do know that he was very much an "Angry Young Man" especially when he was writing the Elric books and that Elric was specifically designed to be the opposite of your classic "Conan" style, strong mighty hero. I can see him writing in rejection of the classic archtypes, that is essentially the source of Elric's origin. However I doubt that the Christian propgandizing in especially CS Lewis's stuff was much of a motivation. I suspect it was far more a case of simply wanting to smash that which had gone before as was such a motivation for so many others in the 60's. I am curious though where your information comes from, I have never done much biographical research on Moorecock, so my gut feelings may well be entirely wrong. [/QUOTE]

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