I liked reading about sorcery, traveling in between planes of existence. I liked reading about Arioch, and his many different incarnations. The most interesting thing about his works are the trippy occult-esque elements. His villains and supporting characters are less than one-dimensional, as is Elric who has the self destructive ingenuity of a lemming. He never shows us anything that substantiates that love or the Melnibonean trait. We know Elric 'loves' Cymoril, who is supposed to be an 'amoral' Melnibonean yet who can somehow behave as if she understands love and loyalty, okay, so Moorcock says. I don't care about any of his characters enough to care about what happens. I think his ideas are great but he's kind of a sloppy writer, jumping from one scenario to the next in his Elric stories without, interestingly for fantasy fiction, never providing any semblance of conflict or suspense. However, there is something weird and fun about the Eternal Champion stories, which I think serves other media like video games far better than epic fantasy literature made for reading (Lords of Chaos and Law clearly influencing the Daedra and Aedra from Elder Scrolls). Though his influence is profound in everything from D&D and Warhammer to Wolverine and Adam Warlock, I never found any real relatable human qualities in any of his characters and frankly can't stomach his worldview in any capacity. His main attraction is Elric who is pretty much the original edgy and emo fantasy anti-hero. I never much liked Moorcock as a person or a writer. Tolkien was a fundamentally different from Moorcock, both as a person and a writer.

Personally, I more than disagree with his potshots towards Tolkien and Robert E.

Michael morecock