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A hundred years from now, people will still be reading Tolkien and Lewis, and almost nobody will remember who Moorcock was.
by skissane 3y ago
A hundred years from now, people will still be reading Tolkien and Lewis, and almost nobody will remember who Moorcock was.
- mrweasel 3y agoAnd we'll still be debating whether or not Tolkien was actually any good at writing.
- brudgers 3y agoThe Hobbit is written well enough to read aloud. Breaking the fourth wall helps. The Lord of the Rings isn't. CS Lewis was a much better writer. Tolkien made a franchise because his ideas were novel (non of Lewis's bible stories) and we've been seeing new products since he died.
- james-bcn 3y agoOrc lives matter.
- beardyw 3y agoI don't even know who he is!
- beardyw 3y agoDownvoted for not knowing who someone is. That's a first for me.
- Turing_Machine 3y agoA hundred years from now? I'll bet if you took a survey even today, vastly more people would recognize Tolkien and Lewis than Moorcock. That was probably true even before the LOTR and CON movies. Tolkien and Lewis sold a helluva lot of books. I think the Ballantine Tolkien paperbacks I had when I was a kid were something like the 40th edition, and that was (cough) a long time ago.
- skissane 3y agoWell, I myself had heard of Moorcock before this. I’ve never read any of his fiction, whereas I’ve read some of Tolkien’s (and they made us read The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe at school, but I never finished it.) But, for Moorcock, I read his interview with Andrea Dworkin, [0] and also a speech he gave at a conference commemorating her. [1] In fact, when I hear his name, Andrea Dworkin is the first thing to pop into my head. [2] I doubt I’m very representative of the general population, however. [0] http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/MoorcockInterview.html http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/MoorcockInterview.ht... [1] http://www.clarechambers.com/andrea-dworkin-commemorative-conference/ http://www.clarechambers.com/andrea-dworkin-commemorative-co... [2] https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-43-michael-moorcock-and-andrea-dworkin-1534106.html https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-...