/lit/ - Literature

>>1177025
>Implying I wouldn't defend its honor more eruditely (which, apparently, is a real word).

There are tons of people on this board, both humble and douchey, who would defend to the death the honor of novels deemed by a good portion of the literary mainstream to be junk fiction. Harry Potter (at least the early books) would be one. Some others would be Dune, Neuromancer, Ender's Game, the Dark Tower series, and the novels of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
/Lit/ has always had its twinges of real arrogance and arbitrary value, but it seems to me that the wars over literary value have come somewhat recently, either in the form of trolls, or as a reactionary result of trolls.