TheBoost said:
Easterhay said:
As it goes, I don't think Lucas comes anywhere Tolkien, though, when it comes to overegging the cake where backstory is concerned. Not that I want to introduce Lord Of The Rings and its increasingly dull spin-offs to the conversation.
There are LOTR spin-offs? You mean the Silmarillion?
I mean The Silmarillion, The Book Of Lost Tales and Unfinished Tales. Children Of Hurin - which indeed was by Christopher Tolkien, taken from notes by JRR - was so badly written it made his grandfather look like Stephen King.