/lit/ - Literature

Why doesn't Asians have the problem of an existential crisis?

I tend to take something to read along with me when I travel to the city, because the trip is goddamn boring. This time it was Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring. I've read it a few times before, but I can't afford to buy any new books, so there I was again, on my way back from Toronto, reading on the bus (Which had showed up ten minutes late).

I was tired, irritated by the fact I'd blown seven hours of my day applying for one job, and trying to distract myself with the book so I'd keep from dozing off again. I reached the part in the book where Frodo receives Sting and the mithril undercoat from Bilbo before the Fellowship departs from Rivendell. Bilbo, who is known for his ability to compose songs and poems, and is generally well-read, turns toward the window and looks out at the valley, and murmurs to himself a snippet of song;

No love for me