TIME calls fantasy author George R.R. Martin the “American Tolkien”

TIME.com: The American Tolkien — Nov. 21, 2005 — Page 1:

Martin isn’t the best known of America’s straight-up fantasy writers. That honor would probably go to upstart Christopher Paolini (Eragon), or Robert Jordan (the endlessly turning Wheel of Time series), or better yet to ageless grandmistress Ursula K. LeGuin (A Wizard of Earthsea). But of those who work in the grand epic-fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best. In fact, with his newest book, A Feast for Crows (Bantam; 784 pages), currently descending on bookstores and ascending best-seller lists, this is as good a time as any to proclaim him the American Tolkien.

GRRM is absolutely my favorite living fiction writer.

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