dclayh comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dclayh 02 September 2010 06:38:51AM 4 points [-]

s stupid moral oversimplification necessary in a mass-market bestseller? E.g., Tolkien

I would say The Silmarillion is not very morally simplistic. Specifically I would call it Black and Gray morality [TVTropes], because I can't think of a single non-God major character who's totally good. (Maybe Luthien?)

Comment author: PhilGoetz 15 September 2010 07:59:46PM 0 points [-]

Good point, I think - like most people, I never finished The Silmarillion. But I don't think that's evidence for non-simplistic popular fiction - it wasn't very popular even when riding on the huge success of Tolkien's other work.