Good point, I think—like most people, I never finished The Silmarillion. But I don’t think that’s evidence for non-simplistic popular fiction—it wasn’t very popular even when riding on the huge success of Tolkien’s other work.
Good point, I think—like most people, I never finished The Silmarillion. But I don’t think that’s evidence for non-simplistic popular fiction—it wasn’t very popular even when riding on the huge success of Tolkien’s other work.