Another point about LOTR (and Narnia)

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., joym999 at a... wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > JRRT is the better writer
> 
> Thems fightin' words, Amy.
> 
> --Joywitch, who has always found those fuzzy little hobbits kind of 
> irritating

 The thing that always irritated me about Tolkien (and his drinking 
buddy, Lewis) was their technophobia; it didn't detract from their 
*own* writing so much, other than the hobbits' various Ye Olde habits 
and some interminably long journeys in which nothing much happens, 
but it set down a bright line between SF and fantasy that, with few 
exceptions is only now being blurred.
 Perhaps this is the inevitable product of their shared background as 
academics at an ancient university in a city that's also home to a 
major auto factory...