/lit/ - Literature

Was he a respectable writer?

>>16636523
>devote yourself to learning every ancient language from Gothic to the particular Middle English dialect of your West Midlands home
>write the most influential essay ever on Beowulf
>give extremely popular public readings of the same poem, which you open with a manly HWAET
>mentor countless students in their own studies of medieval English literature
>literally redesign the Oxford English curriculum to require more Anglo-Saxon and Middle English
>fifty years after your death, NEETs on an anonymous imageboard declare you never read anything old

>>16476491
>have lifelong, happy marriage and several children
>regularly interact with a wide circle of friends and scholarly acquaintances for personal and intellectual enrichment
>give large lectures to undergraduates and teach them in one on one tutorials for decades
>get accused of autism on an anonymous Mongolian basketweaving forum
Yikes!

Where can I see the curriculums universities like Oxford and Cambridge were using for humanities subjects before the 60s?

Specifically I want to see Oxford's English curriculum between 1930 and 1960, apparently Tolkien and CS Lewis and other guys got together and in 1931 changed it and threw a lot of medieval literature and philology in there. But any Pre-60s list of books would be cool (I mean textbooks not the source material)

Please tell me someone has revised these novels to remedy Tolkien's feeble grasp on English punctuation.

talks for hours about a plant continues story then talks for hours about mountains... people would say he would stop mid conversation then talk about random facts about something for ages.

I’ve actually never read anything by Tolkien. Should I? What do you like about his novels?

As you probably know, /lit/, J.R.R. Tolkien has written a novel. Yes, J.R.R. Tolkien. The professor. The man who writes to give a history to his languages. The don who declaims Beowulf from memory, then shouts at his parish priest in Latin, his darling Luthien beside him, and scribbles a hundred lines of alliterative verse on the deeds of the Elder Days.

You all know him.

That said, how does it make you feel that Tolkien is a published author and you are not? How does it make you feel that he is able to get his book out there, regardless of whether it's a great piece of lit or not, and you are not?

>inb4 ghostwritten
Even if it was, someone who's good enough to render something publishable has settled for doing just that, secretly writing for an Oxford medievalist and not getting his/her own name on the cover of that book. How does it make you feel that someone good enough to write even a mediocre book has to settle for being the ghostwriter of medievalist?

Do his novels contain any literary value whatsoever?

>>6874989
>original
>go back to tolkien

>>6534599
>George Really Retarded Martin

>>6137518

>>5036723

>Thank you for your letter. I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects.

>But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people

based fucking tolkien

how much of a elf was this guy?? you cant write a story like this without being elven filth deep down

elves are only good for raping.

Just wondering, but how overrated does /lit/ think Tolkien is?

>>3465814
Tolkien was a great writer, his mastery of the english language alone attests to that.
He was a shit Novelist though.

>>2816422
"Write what you know," he said.

>>2769002

>14th century
>Old English

>>2699961
Not all real people.

Just the fags. Fags like you.

>>2347800
Beautiful.

>>2310414

So just wondering if anybody has read either "Unfinished Tales" or "The Silmarillion"? If so are they a good read?

>>2221809