I'm not sure how to feel, respond, or what to take away from such critiques. I don't know what your trying to fish at in terms of responses towards this. It's not the first time I've seen such sentiments. In fact, my initial response was to reply with "Is that you, JG Keely?" Not that I know him in any kind of capacity. Seems to echo a lot of his opinions from what I can recall on reading them.

I guess the general takeaway would be that fantasy as we come to know it sucks in all it's forms with the root of the problem laying with the popularity and influence of Tolkien's work. I kind of went through were I was insecure with liking fantasy. Was it really the brain-dead genre that I feared it was? My whole answer to that was to just shrug my shoulders and move on with my life. Like what you like and don't worry about it.