I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.
Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid.
I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.