![]() When he wrote for pulps in the 1960's, MM was part of a rebellion against the "traditional" fantasy whose godfather was Tolkien. It's fantasy you can lend to your great grandfather. Its values are Victorian, middle-class, and traditional. However, his central point I would agree with completely: Tolkien is fantasy with no "edge" to it. ![]() ![]() So to some degree, MM does "say things" and I think there's a bit of a mischievous desire to offend going on in these essays. In that same book, he savages Robert E Howard for the one-dimensional female characters of Conan, yet MM's own females in the Elric books seem to exist solely to fall madly in love with Elric on first sight, just because he's a badass. Moorcock is possibly my favorite author, and I read that essay in the book where it first appeared. ![]()
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