As to who will end his story, I hope they do it justice though you are right and it won’t be the same. I also hope they don’t try to squeeze the content for every last bit of revenue. I really would like to think that we won’t see umpteen volumes of ‘based on’ or ‘expanded universe’ like all that mediocre-at-best Dune work that’s floating around. We’ve got everything except ‘Unwed Mothers of Dune’ at this point, and I’m sure that’s forthcoming, eventually.

But there was an article rather more years ago that made a similar point about Robert Jordan and WoT while comparing WoT to LotR if not in substance then in influence. I thought for sure it was the NYTimes. Perhaps it appeared elsewhere.

Constance, if you read this, do you have any memory of it? Anyone else?

As a brief aside, the NY Times reference to “American Tolkien” is incorrect. TIME magazine’s Lev Grossman named George R. R. Martin that, and a quick search of the Times archive shows they’re referencing Grossman’s remark. That said, had someone named Jordan the “American Tolkien” (especially some years ago), I would have agreed with the idea behind it.

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