/lit/ - Literature

>>21905235
If more bullying and prostitution was allowed spree-shooters would not happen.

If I recall Adam Lanza had a rare disorder where it was difficult for him to feel pain. Also played DDR 3 hours a day.

Old KB basically wrote an essay for OP exactly lol

http://web.archive.org/web/20190425002809/https://medium.com/@kantbot2000/guns-dont-kill-people-school-psychologists-do-9ee8ed277baf

>>18212738
>Tom Shippey
>Michael Drout
>John D. Rateliff
>Humphrey Carpenter
>John Garth
>Corey Olsen

literally WHO

>These aren’t “Anglo bugmen,” they are knowledgeable, passionate, and creative academics and writers who have lectured, written, and published extensively on Tolkien’s writings in the context of Anglo Saxon literature, 18th and 19th century fantasy authors, high romance, etc.

yawn

>No, I’m responding to your attempt to use bad film adaptations as evidence for Tolkien being in a different league than greats like Melville and Shakespeare, both of whom have had their fair share of shit movies.

i´m not saying just movies, but merchandise and treating the source material as disposable enterprise, something like pic related

>Further, you still seem to be implying that a work of art is only good or successful insofar as it is seen as good or successful by the culture it is created in, which is a bizarre position to hold.

yeah, Oswald Spengler talks about this