i love how poopty filmmakers still try to make films from lovecrafts material

lovecraft's style is reasonable i think. it really helps set the mood.

cool air is my favorite lovecraft

i was just talking about the labyrinthine quantities of adjectives in lovecrafts and tolkiens prose, which i think adds to both writers style

tbh tolkiens references make sense if you obsess over him as much as i do, maybe thats just me idk

the hobbit
two towers
fellowship
return of the king

tbh

lovecrafts use of adjectives is fitting though, like josh said it really helps set the mood. the picture in the house is probably my favorite, or rats in the walls.

mccarthy is a pretty pretentious writer himself. i mean, what other author has one sentence describing marauding indians that is an entire page long haha.

god rats in the walls is so amazing

@nostalgia: better not forget the silmarillion

I really like Lovecrafts At the Mountain of Madness.

anything related to the lovecraft/cthulhu mythos = the best

lovecraft's writing style is about the most hideous thing I've read, I couldn't read more than 3 or 4 short stories because he takes awesome ideas and makes them really, really boring

something about the picture in the house is just very unsettling to me. the tension created in it is unbelievable.

the end of rats in the walls is just incredible. the way lovecraft manages to describe the descent of somebody into insanity is just amazing.

[QUOTE=Niflheim II;17617203]adb is built like a girl[/QUOTE]
he has the perfect body for a girl

no homo i just like them tall

[QUOTE=AA-12;17617219][B]tolkien is a horrible writer[/B], but his ideas and worlds are amazing.

GRRM will always reign best[/QUOTE]

Lolwut.

Nah, srsly. You just have to get used to his style. He takes a looong time to portray area's, but in the end I was glad he did, because it really adds so much to the books.

I think James Clemens is also a good fantasy writer. Anyone agree/disagree?

i'm not familiar with clemens, what did he write?

Puddn'head Wilson, Huckleberry Finn, etc

that was samuel clemens you silly goose

Ehrr, I mean the James Clemens that wrote the Godslayer series.

i havent read those, ill have to look him up

[quote=AA-12;17617294]lovecraft's style is reasonable i think. it really helps set the mood.[/quote]
If anything Lovecraft's writing style is far more dryer than anything Tolkien wrote.