Tolkien and Jordan - What's the Difference?

"I hope somebody else, you know, can take up the mantle," he says. "It's bloody difficult work to ... build out of a singular threat of culture." There are similar projects between Tolkien and Jordan in some ways: Salastni's Chronicles of Amber and Wolf's Book of the New Sun. But nobody does this to the degree that Jordan did,. You know, like all the time, right?