Thanks for the clarification. I have no problem with you preferring SF or feeling like fantasy is too same-y to hold your interest. That's not what you originally said, though.
Bolding mine.
Do you have so little self-awareness that you can't see how condescending these statements are? Or are you blinded by your bias in thinking Tolkien is the best thing fantasy ever put out and it should be obvious to everyone else?
Whatever. Don't want to fight with ya, Sponge. Your clarification makes sense to me and I even agree that some of it can feel repetitive. I'm a "it's the execution not the tropes" type of person. It's totally fine if you're not. But it's disingenuous to say "nobody else measures up to Tolkien and they're all just copying his work over and over" and act like you can't find where you've been elitist.
(November 5, 2021 at 9:22 am)Spongebob Wrote: I can understand why people like books/movies like this, but they are all so derivative of Tolkien that I just can't enjoy them. When I was in my teens I devoured fantasy books, but eventually realized that none of them stood up to Tolkien and every one of them were living off of his crumbs, so I shifted away from reading fantasy.
Bolding mine.
Do you have so little self-awareness that you can't see how condescending these statements are? Or are you blinded by your bias in thinking Tolkien is the best thing fantasy ever put out and it should be obvious to everyone else?
Whatever. Don't want to fight with ya, Sponge. Your clarification makes sense to me and I even agree that some of it can feel repetitive. I'm a "it's the execution not the tropes" type of person. It's totally fine if you're not. But it's disingenuous to say "nobody else measures up to Tolkien and they're all just copying his work over and over" and act like you can't find where you've been elitist.
