/lit/ - Literature

I love TFoTR so much. It sits in context with a great (though slightly overrated) trilogy and world, but it holds a special place in my heart. The feeling of adventure, the poems and languages and depth of the natural world that Tolkien conjured up. I will never forget being a little 12 year old and getting cozy under a blanket to read about Strider leading the hobbits through the forest and the Fellowships romp through Moria. I was transported to middle earth. It parallels and embodies every young mans love of natural adventure, that is the essence of Tolkien and the Fellowship.

my favorite poem from the fellowship, just topping Gimli's:

Gil-galad was an Elven-king.
Of him the harpers sadly sing;
the last whose realm was fair and free
between the Mountains and the Sea.

>>14917393
Unfortunately, your experience will never be as good as for someone who hasn’t seen the movies. Sinking into middle earth for the first time as a middle schooler reading the book is peak comfy. That being said, expect an immersive adventure in fellowship, slight lull in towers, and a pick up again in the return. I like the first book best desu. And if you love the trilogy you have to read the Silmarillion

>>14598197
I don’t mind it in small doses. Alan Lee’s art in the lord of the rings prints I read for the first time was absolutely stellar and really help cement the vision of middle earth.

>>10138922

no prob, glad you enjoyed the pics!

>>9784079
>In society there are varying degrees of the individual relatively sacrificed to/for the collective but the individual certainly gains to degrees, and this is partly the crux. The arguments of levels of individual and collective sacrifice for what, and what is the alternative.
yep. that's it. the individual and the crowd. this is partly what i was saying earlier (and again, this is another big deal with heidegger). the individual and the collective. it's too easy to shit on The Masses/The Normies/&c. bad move. bad philosophical manners. the individual is always in some kind of struggle w/the other in society, but ideally i think it would be becoming for philosophers to be *on the side of that individual.* if you see someone drowning, throw that man a rope, don't kek at him and light up a gauloise. be charitable.
>philosophical charity is super-important for this reason
>certainty a spook, but skepticism a meme
>gotta leave the door open a crack

>I suppose you are speaking of christianity. Interesting, as if, if anyone in the world is struggling with life, they have something to turn to, somewhere that can help. This has also been attempted by the state, but the church attempted this too I guess, and for a long time and in places still, there is church and state, and there are many different churches.
yes. big fan of the church these days. a lot of my favorite writers are catholics. my fave alternative to meme politics
>well, those and peterson lectures, i suppose
>but peterson is cooler after having done the reading also

>>9784101
>its called facebook, and my diary desu, and open mics, and blogs
true, but those aren't quite as good as unleashing your inner hegel/inner plato/inner X, is what i mean. facebook is like web-designing your own fucking obituary & my diary desu meh
>open mic, i guess
>blogs are ok
but i was hoping for more like a *book* that i could read, or a cool screenplay or something. this idea of writing not for the reader but really, ultimately, for how you come to understand your own thought process seems interesting to me. and ideally it wouldn't mean a kind of meme manifesto either. have to let this one cook a little more

>>9784137
>becoming a namefag
it honestly wasn't my attention. really wasn't. meant to only be anonymous. now it's stuck. the endgame is now how to shed this identity and not be a meme. everything i write only defers what is probably the thing i should be doing
>but i do really love this place & i learn a fuckload in these threads by working shit out too
>damnit /lit/ y u so good

>>9784334
>Just accept the death drive, give up your little name and you'll live on. Ethos is built outside-in; Pathos is built inside-out; Logos is built in-between
holy fuckballs. see? this is why i can't fucking not keep coming back here.

>xunzi
fuck he was so interesting. def a standout text from my super-chinese phase

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