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Title: Sulkin' without Tolkien
Review: Why'd this guy have to leave us? Who shot JRR? I hope he's enjoying the creativity of the only One more imaginative than himself--the Creator of the Universe. As for us, still strapped to this mortal bowling bowl and rolling down the lane of history (hopefully, staying out of the gutter), Tolkien's absence is our loss. I'm sulkin' without Tolkien...wishing he'd written more, wishing he'd never written LOTR in the first place. Why? Because it's spoiled me--I can scarcely enjoy the barrage of inferior fantasy. The musty, damp, and gritty reality of Middle Earth reveals uncanny moments of beauty, then strips back the uneasy facade to show us seductive and frightening evil. Only an author familiar with the spiritual reality of such a cosmic battle could use a fictional tool to etch it into our culture with such vividness. And only a man like Tolkien, a man in relationship with the True King in heaven, could show the costly, but victorious battle against the Darkness.
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