/lit/ - Literature

>>3414280
I stopped worrying about looking like the pretentious douchbag, and it's worked out much better. Despite that, I'm still usually not the most pretentious sounding person in most of my classes.

>taking a history class this semester
>some chick who sits in the front was in my intro to philosophy class a few semesters ago
>she volunteers to read Copernicus' letter to the Pope.
>sometime during the last 2 years, she adopted a british accent
>mfw

>>3266623
Reading this makes it sound like the ring is a stand in for industrial wealth or something. But that still wouldn't explain why Bilbo had it.

Also
>at a restaurant the other day with friend who doesn't read
>make a sarcastic comment about wanting to go see the Hobbit
>he say's no I'm not really into that stuff
>I say, "Yeah, I liked the book, but the movie looks like shit."
>his response: "It was a book?"
>call him an idiot and make a bet that the waitress (his cousin) will know that it's a book
>ask her
>she doesn't
>mfw