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GRRM is double the writer Tolkien ever was. Jack Vance had more influence over the nature of fantasy than Tolkien did. And hobbits are fucking boring. Look up some John Bauer and recognize that Tolkien was riffing on the gestalt, not busting into new ground. I don't hate the man, and I don't think his work should be ignored, but the slavish adulation heaped upon his tombstone is tedious as fuck. And I say that being married to a woman who named her pound puppies Bilbo, Frodo and Radegast when she was a kid.