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Re: My English teacher believes Tolkien has no literary merit....
Old 09-07-2005, 05:41 PM   #3
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Default Re: My English teacher believes Tolkien has no literary merit....

Yeah, I have never been able to get through even half of The Lord of the Rings a second time, but that's not what I was talking about. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is just as bad if not worse than The Lord of the Rings, and it still has literary merit.

It has nothing to do with how good a book is or if there is too much description, it basically has to do with whether some English professor decides if its worthy or not. That my English teacher just decided that the whole of the science fiction/fantasy genre is unworthy for no reason that it just is really ticks me off.

It can't be because its a relatively new genre, at least in its current incarnation. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, just released in 2000 or something, has literary merit (I would also like to note that one of the things my teacher said made this such a wonderful book was the changing of perspectives each chapter, something that has been in two fantasy/sci-fi novels that I can name before).

Its just irks me.


/me shrugs and walks away
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