Posted: February 23, 2000 at 10:37:20: by RobRoy
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: I think Jordans writing is good and at time i enjoy his work. Bottom line is he just cannot be compared with Tolkien. Like I said before Tolkien was part of Middle-Earth and it was part of him. When Middle-Earth died in him he died (my theory:-)). Middle-Earth wasnt just a ring and some hobbits. It was a complete detailed history on every race and event. It was carefuly invented languages. Tolkien started created all of this with some old dusty mythology books and his imagination. Robert Jordan read Tolkiens books and created the WoT on a frame of LotR (for the first few books).: Whos your daddy?
: Tolkiens your daddy! Once again, Tolkien has the advantage of having an entire body of work completed and published. Jordan only began his series within the last decade, and has not yet had the opportunity to complete it. We have no idea how deep of a history he is created (although, to judge from his books it is several centuries in age, with heroes and villians and ages and calendars and the like). In addition, I don't think that it is fair to say that he simply read Tolkien and then wrote his books. The man has led an accomplished life, and he has incorporated more then just a western influence. There is an obvious eastern influence to the basis of his writing, also some ancient Egyptian and middle-eastern. Jordans work, while it may be considered cow-milking, is not simply a redraft of Tolkien's. -RobRoy
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