/lit/ - Literature

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This is going to sound corny, but this one. I was a big reader in my youth, then completely abandoned it.

Does anyone else feel like they have a difficult time truly absorbing the LotR story as it was intended? When I read it, I can really appreciate its atmosphere and feeling, but my mind sort of just glances over all of the physical descriptions. I am unable to really picture the landscapes in my mind, though not from lack of trying. There are lots of segments in the book where its nothing but paragraphs of the characters walking along roads and valleys and dales and the only message my brain gets is "they went from one place to another". I wish I could picture in my head the landscapes he was trying to evoke

What went so right, bros?

Select no more than five works (from any medium) published after the year 1900 to serve as the moral bedrock for a new civilization. I'll start.

What was the LotR fandom like before the Jackson films came out?

What was it like during its rise in the 60s?

Essential metal /lit/?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0TcB5lxfuY

Best version of the Lord of the Rings trilogy/and Hobbit collection available? I hate my current copies.

Is The Lord of the Rings just filled with a shitload of filler? I studied English in college, and I just can't get past the piles of stuff which is admittedly creative, but thrown in there with vague relation to the plot. "Oh, in the Third Era, year 453 the king elf did this and this happened," you know.
Whenever I tried reading the series I just say, concentrate the rising action! Is fantasy just filled with a bunch of stuff which sort of ties into the main plot but is not really necessary to understand and even read at all? That turns away anyone who doesn't care about races of beings which don't even exist in real life.
Yes, Tolkien was a professor and made it a goal to show how fantasy should be written, and he was extremely creative, but the books can be arguably far more solid reads by taking half the stuff out. Like I said, there's not really elves and Middle Earth and stuff, so unless it's essential information for the plot, it just makes the books a pain for me.
I have had these thought for probably 10 years and am wondering what others think

Why is there so much singing?