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Post by geoffrey on Jan 24, 2020 10:36:51 GMT -6
As an aside, has anyone else read the Iron Tower Trilogy? While derided as LOTR with the serial numbers filed off, it was originally meant to be a sequel. The Tolkien Estate denied the rights. It was actually his The Silver Call duology (published in 1986) that was originally meant to be a sequel to The Lord of the Rings. It consists of: 1. Trek to Kraggen-Cor (Kraggen-Cor = Khazad-dum) 2. The Brega PathIt tells of the dwarven quest to cleanse and resettle Khazad-dum. I thought it was an interesting read, though nothing to write home about.
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Post by tkdco2 on Jan 24, 2020 14:47:59 GMT -6
I didn't read the duology, but I still have the trilogy somewhere in storage. It definitely reads like a LOTR pastiche, but still enjoyable.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2020 2:05:11 GMT -6
As an aside, has anyone else read the Iron Tower Trilogy? While derided as LOTR with the serial numbers filed off, it was originally meant to be a sequel. The Tolkien Estate denied the rights. It was actually his The Silver Call duology (published in 1986) that was originally meant to be a sequel to The Lord of the Rings. It consists of: 1. Trek to Kraggen-Cor (Kraggen-Cor = Khazad-dum) 2. The Brega PathIt tells of the dwarven quest to cleanse and resettle Khazad-dum. I thought it was an interesting read, though nothing to write home about. Geoff is correct, "The Iron Tower" is a retelling of LotR, but "The Silver Call" is a sequel, of sorts. McKiernan is far from being a bad writer - actually, I think he's a pretty talented guy. The thing is just, "The Iron Tower" is basically a writing exercise that had the luck of getting published, with all the benefits and disadvantages that come with such a decision: Nowadays, this would go into the campaign section of some forum, or to some obscure epub; in the 80s, if it said "fantasy" on the envelope, and was a letter longer than a page, it went straight to the printers. But no shame in that, and no shame in McKiernan making the most of the opportunity that was given to him: McKiernan wrote, what, fifteen more novels in his Mithgar cycle, and about a dozen others, and did so until well beyond his 80th birthday. - So, it's certainly not like he had nothing to offer beyond his debut material.
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