/lit/ - Literature

I've been rereading lord of the rings. I remember the Sackville-Baggins being shitty but it actually all hobbits are shit. Day after Bilbo leaves? LOL lets knock holes in the walls and floor to look for gold that doesnt belong to us. Better take everything that isnt nailed down less someone else might get more than me omegalol. I mean what are the odds the 4 decent hobbits were friends and actually went on the ring adventure? The hobbits deserved to be enslaved in the end.

After 60 odd years—is this still the pinnacle of the genre?

the movies totally messed up the structure of the books. it was so much better how the master tolkien didn't use alternating chapters, he just gave you like 200 pages of merry and pippin, then like 200 pages of sam and frodo. what the fuck was peter hackson even thinking when he tampered with this obviously superior storytelling structure?

are they really overrated?