>It is impossible for an author still writing to be fair to another author working along the same lines. In fact I dislike DUNE with some intensity, and in that unfortunate case it is much the best and fairest to another author to keep silent and refuse to comment.Ouch.
Tolkien disliked all allegories.
>>25128708More than that: Tolkien was a legitimately pious Catholic, and Dune is all about how religion has no transcendent Truth to it, it's merely useful for achieving your personal goals. Of course Tolkien would hate a story like that.
Hellstrom's Hive was the true Herbert masterpiece anyway.
>>25127720>It is impossible for an author still writing to be fair to another author working along the same lines.This is absolutely true. I violently hated every other PhD thesis that was written on a vaguely similar topic to mine, and I hated the good bits even more than the bits I didn't like.
>>25128782Jealousy is a stinky cologne anon.
>>25128805At least anon is self-aware. That is enough to put him above a midwit.
I'm Christian but Dune is just better.
>>25128874What makes it better?
>>25128874It absolutely is not. I'll say more: the 1984's movie ending was better.
>>25128877LOTR doesn't have anything interesting to say. None of it maps onto reality so it's just the fantasizing of an old man about good (mostly) coming together to defeat evil. Who cares?
>>25128938How'd a larping goodreads retard find out about 4chinz?
>>25127720Tolkien was truly a gentleman.
>>25127720>The New Shadow in SpaceIf it weren't for Herbert, we could've had the Rings follow up.
>>25129092>no elves>no dwarves>no hobbits>no wizards>no magic>no cool demigods walking aroundThe New Shadow would have been boring and Tolkien was right not to write it.
>>25128971Yeah, if being a gentleman means being a facetious, passive-aggressive prick.
>>25129127thats exactly what it means
>>25128938>has nothing important to say>still becomes a phenomenonThis is infinitely more impressive than Dune's success. Historically, epic narratives with no clear message age way better.
