/lit/ - Literature

>Read The Hobbit and LotR during early teens and find them amazing
>Get forced to read the Poetic Edda, Prose Edda and Kalevala during first year of uni-prep/high school and find them pretty great.
>Read the Silmarillion one year later.
>Realise Tolkien's world is basically a bad fanfic of Norse myth, with a sprinkle of Christianity.
>The dwarves are Dvergar/Svartalfar, the elves Ljosalfar, the Orcs Dokkalfar/Svartalfar.
>Melkor/Morgoth is Loki, Manwe is Odin and Eru is yahweh.
>Gandalf is Post-Christening folklore Odin
>Oh, and the elves speak Finnish.
What a fucking hack.