Talk:J. R. R. Tolkien vs George R. R. Martin/@comment-26498708-20160502170915/@comment-15589301-20160502191646

Debatable really. They wouldn't make it work as well as erb can, or as I personally believe anyway. It's not a fair comparison anyhow, because it wasn't meant to be some grand-punchline either. In fact, Tolkien's last verse in general was so good because it kept going.

It was a standard line, that while a lot of people could write, was used in the correct way. To set up a verse; for it to rise. This was also done with the line you pointed out with Martin. Most fan-made quality I see, would probably stick the Jon Snow one at the end or something. Not every line is too far above what fan-mades can do, but certainly the way in which erb deliver them is way above it