Re: Was Tolkien a good conlanger? (was: Re: Good Books

Staving And Rosta:
>(Note, btw, that Tolkien publicly articulated his
>dislike for Shakespeare.)
Probably found the language too modern.

I like both Tolkien and Shakespeare. Both were, in their own ways, lovers
of language. One of the things I find most worthy of respect about
Shakespeare is that man writing populist theatre for a living created works
of literature that stand up 400 years later. Really breaks down the elitist
division between "literary" and "popular" fiction. People who believe in
that distinction write, on average, worse books than those who reject it.

Pete