liskamariella t1_ixpny60 wrote on November 25, 2022 at 8:48 AM

Reply to comment by Steven_W_Ryan in The Hobbit was a big disappointment for me by filisterr

Yeah I never read hobbit or watched the movie but the lotr books explaining a lot in the beginning so getting what happened in the hobbit isn't really hard even without the books.

I'm interested. What do you mean by different feel?

Steven_W_Ryan t1_ixppg15 wrote on November 25, 2022 at 9:11 AM

Mieville's books are weird fantasy, so not the traditional medieval feel of most fantasy novels. Reading Mieville is a unique experience, whereas LOTR and A Song of Ice and Fire, and Wheel of Time, etc all have a lot in common. They are all Tolkienesque. Mieville's books are not Tolkienesque.