Robert Jordan is dead.

I hope I’m not breathing new life into a dead discussion but I don’t check these boards as often as I once did.


While Wheel of Time will always hold a special place in my own personal library, like almost everybody else, I became increasingly disappointed with each additional book starting around Crown of Swords. Anyhow, I never understood how people could criticize Jordan’s work and then turn around and praise Tolkein. The third Lord of the Rings book is one of the few I could not bring myself to finish.

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The greatest failing of Robert Jordan is one which he shares with the majority of fantasy authors. He is not exceptionally bad when considered in the company of his most immediate contemporaries in the field. I could name several authors whom I believe to be far worse, but that would merely be an unproductive digression. His failing is characterisation. He does not write complete, three-dimensional people, he writes thin, weak characters who can be counted upon to always say and do the same things.

How is The Lord of the Rings any different? I'd say it takes the cake as far as poor chracters goes.

Jam it back in, in the dark.