Lewis Jones in the Spectator reviews a selection of Michael Moorcock’s short non-fiction, Into the Media Web, and notes his loathing of Star Wars, CS Lewis and especially Tolkein:
in “Epic Pooh” he writes that he is unconvinced of Sauron’s evil since “anyone who hates hobbits can’t be all bad”.
I laughed - its so true, we could be so over hobbits.
ReplyDeleteI also recalled my favourite ever SF line, from Michael Moorcock: 'the skins of vinyls long since dead'.
There eez a leetle book that might amuse:
ReplyDelete"The Roadkill of Middle Earth"
by John Carnell & Tom Sutton- pub. 2001
No, I never let my copy out of my house-
Yes, yes and especially yes
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