Tag: Fantasy
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Conan: The Hour of the Dragon
Review: Super good read. Fast paced, sword and sorcery. Proper old 1930s pulp magazine fare. However… Robert E. Howard stood apart from his pulp contemporaries by an Aquilonian League. A mile. His characters are well developed and he created a whole world. Think about Middle Earth and Narnia (which came later). If you’re not white,… Read more
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The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
Review: What a neat little volume! A book of verse. Published in 1962 at the request of his publisher (Allen & Unwin). The poems were almost all adapted from Tolkien’s much earlier poems published in university journals, most having nothing to do with Tom Bombadil or even the LOTR franchise. Thanks to an editorial conceit… Read more