/lit/ - Literature

It's a translation of an old language, so it makes sense, ok!

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>>22363586
tolkien was always for stunted manchild

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>>21541895
>He was an accomplished linguist who defines an entire genre to this day. His son and daughter-in-law have been able to live richly off of nothing but his writings for their entire lives. You have a strange definition of a hack. Whimsy is based. Incel Nazi-larpers are cracked.

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based

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cope

>there are so many cultures out there
>so many in the so-called antiquity alone
>myriads of myths and tales
>ancient epics gallore
>I certainly could go to the source and read them all, maybe even try to learn a new language or two, maybe some history
>...
>nah, I'll just read thousands upon thousands of pages of some seething hack's bad copy/paste of Norse myth and an awful attempt to marry that with his Christian faith, all written in the manner of a stocky professor trying to copy the style of an epic
Seriously, what is your problem? LotR is most certainly not wrriten like an "epic" so that argument falls flat. It's not a "true" world as it's some weird mash-up of Medieval Britain and Late Antiquity Northernlands pretending it's some pre-pre-pre-pre recorded antiquity. It's not imaginative as it's literally Northern Euro myths and languages twisted here and there. It's most certainly not well written, as there's a constant case of going on nonsensical tangents to describe some useless patch of land, overdetailing needless things while providing stiff descriptions of what he should've focused on. The dialogue is nothing special and it's all like a bloated fairy tale than anything else.

What it is is autistic. That's it. It's a huge universe powered by seething autism. It's literally a language professor taking his knowledge and trying to rewrite reality so that Britain had a pre-antiquity epic but somehow styled after le heckin wholesome Medieval and Pre-WW1 Britain. It's every autist's blatant self-insert fantasy, but instead of the [current day] autist being a 15 YO hormonal teen, it's an old coot. And this is what's admired and been allowed to sully the genre of fantasy? Literally any LotRfag could've spent that much time learning about a real culture instead of the autistic ramblings of an old man.
>inb4 but what about [insert pop culture thing here]fags?!
At least those know it's just meaningless entertainment. You play a game, you watch a movie, you read a comic. You pass an hour and that's it. Nobody's pretending the Darth Bane Trilogy is important literature.

Just stop. Learn about... dunno, ships and pirate history. Get a sailing boat. If you're that interested in "epics" start with the big ones and try to learn the languages so that you can read the originals. You're literally wasting time on the autistic mashups of a hack's copy of a copy of a copy of the real world.

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There's a chart floating around that I think is good, someone should post it. It goes like this:
Step 1: The Hobbit
Step 2: Lord of the Rings
Step 3: The Silmarillion
Step 4: more autism

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>>21213352
fantasy is capeshit for boomers, at least fantasy starting with tolkien

>>20701790
Nice artwork.