Quote Originally Posted by Sermil View Post
The complete lack of moral complexity, because Sauron is just evil with no other features and because the orcs are born evil so it's OK to kill them
Boromir, Denethor, Saruman, hell, even Theoden (sort of) say hi.
Hell, add in the rest of the legendarium and I can throw Thorin, Thranduil, all of the Fëanorians, Eöl, Hùrin, Tùrin, Mîm, most people Tùrin interact with and even Galadriel. And I wouldn’t be done. Just because Tolkien has some pitch-black (and even then...) and pure white (and even then...) characters doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of gray to go around.
Quote Originally Posted by LaZodiac View Post
Categorizing LOTR as one extremely long book honestly makes the comparison worse in Earthsea's favour. The LOTR books are dense and bloated in ways that any editor would be able to point out as being "eeeh". Consolidating all three books as one large mega-book makes all of the problems LOTR DOES have come off as way, way worse.
To each his own, I like LOTR better as the own book it’s supposed to be personally.
Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
I've just kind of assumed that you were a magical reptile.
Alright, but did you assume any magical reptile bits and if so, which ones ?