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Originally Posted by Nerwen
Are you serious? He really said that? That's the funniest thing I've heard all week! 
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He did! And yet he wrote an essay 'Epic Pooh'
http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.html?id=953 in which he attacks Tolkien fairly mercilously. From other statements on his forum its clear that he knows little of Tolkien's other writings, so his 'criticism' is based on a partial reading of LotR. That said, he does seem to have read more of it than the other 'big' critic of Tolkien, Germaine Greer, who admitted on a BBC book programme that she had read 'about 20 pages' of LotR. Pullman at least seems to have actually read LotR - though I suspect he hasn't read anything else by JRRT.