David Brin tackles Tolkien

haha this man is a professional writer! That's horrible!

but other than that this is kind of a rehash of the attacks he laid on Lucas, SW TPM and Campbellian myths a couple or so years ago. Brin is very wary of anything that celebrates dynastic rule.

The NYT article is more interesting if you can find it.

It all starts when Brin tears into writer Jo Walton who quite rightfully dumps a coke over his head.. Then Brin starts commenting on her blog here (half-way down the page), and here.

rec.arts.sf.fandom commentary on the whole thing

After reading Mr. Brin's posts and his version of events, I am becoming more and more convinced that he must have had a great deal to do with the movie version of "The Postman".

Brin has (a few) good points but I'm going with Wolfe,
who can write rings around Brin, who may be my least
favorite Hugo-novel-award-winner. His "golly gee"
prose gets tiresome fast, as do his typical plots:
"valiant space apes and talking dolphins battle on,
fearlessly, against all odds!!!"

I do like his "Sauron the Rebel" idea. Unfortunately, most
fantasies that try to do something like this end up terribly,
terribly bad.