/lit/ - Literature

>Thingol was filled with wonder and grief when he looked on him, and knew that grim and aged man for Húrin Thalion, the captive of Morgoth [.....]
>And Húrin cast it at the feet of Thingol with wild and bitter words. ‘Receive thou thy fee,’ he cried, ‘for thy fair keeping of my children and my wife! For this is the Nauglamír, whose name is known to many among Elves and Men; and I bring it to thee out of the darkness of Nargothrond, where Finrod thy kinsman left it behind him when he set forth with Beren son of Barahir to fulfil the errand of Thingol of Doriath!’[.......]
>But it is said that Húrin would not live thereafter, being bereft of all purpose and desire, and cast himself at last into the western sea; and so ended the mightiest of the warriors of mortal Men.

>>9612399
w-wrong on all three
I just wanted the books

>>9603073
>If you can't get anything from it it's a failure on your part
I've only read the first volume of botns but I so far I've only enjoyed the story at a surface level. One question I'd like to ask though;
>The first is its practical meaning, what the book calls, ‘the thing the plowman sees.’ The cow has taken a mouthful of grass, and it is real grass, and a real cow—that meaning is as important and as true as either of the others.
>Dorcas nodded. I could see the glimmer of her pale hair in the moonlight. “It seems to me that what you call the third meaning is very clear. But the second meaning is harder to find, and the first, which ought to be the easiest, is impossible.”
Does Dorcas mean the way we see our own reality is figurative? As in we assign metaphors, tropes, rhetorical figures to understand our reality and they've become so ingrained we don't know what has practical meaning and what doesn't?

I'm trying my hardest here, at least I can tell its very well written and I enjoy how wolfe lets the reader fill in the blanks, especially in the ambiguity of severians recollections.
I'm not very insightful, I don't think notes would help either or pausing after each chapter.

>>9565751
But mum my mind goes blank when i read, by the time I've gotten through second half of a sentence I've forgotten what I've read in the first half and I have to reread it again 5 times and subvocalize as much as possible.
What is to be done? Am I just a genetic dead end? Reading is all I have, I've been reading for 6-8 hours a day for months now, why haven't I improved?

>>9560526