/lit/ - Literature

>>9641522
See, here I think Bloom is deeply mistaken. I think LOTR is going to be around for centuries to come. I actually have a professor at my grad school who believes it's going to be the one big work of fiction that survives the 20th Century. She thinks it's going to last in a way that Ulysses won't, for example.

The Lord of the Rings is potent for its deep Christian sense of Providence at work in the world. I suspect this is one of the things Bloom finds offputting about it, since his comments on C.S. Lewis here >>9497973 suggest that he is not fond of overtly religious fiction, which LOTR certainly is.

>>9134427
It's not even a matter of "evil is cooler than good." Look at The Lord of the Rings. The good side in LOTR is cool as fuck, but it's certainly not democratic. Kings everywhere.