/lit/ - Literature

Am i the only one with tolkien fatigue? I used to like lotr and the silmarillion very much but recently i've grown weary of them. They're annoyingly preachy, the characters are cardboard thick, the descriptions are dark souls tier vague, the "magic" is unsatisfying, and i absolutely LOATHE the constant singing. Seriously, why there are so many songs?

>>18915942
We always respond to bait. By discussing Tolkien. Just reading up on the sons of feanor is enough to dispel most of the myths about Tolkien's writing being white and black.

So was Feanor justified? Was he retarded? Both?

>>10103075
>>10103070
tolkien was racist guys, chill.

>>9159750
>"Death of the author" is just moral relativism in literary form. It's garbage.
This. Post-modernists need to just die already. Haven't you bastards done enough harm already?

>>4119830


They didn't demand Feanor hand over the Simarils, the choice was completely his. He said no and Manwe said so be it. But that's just the problem, the Valar by virtue of their virtue were powerless to help when it would have meant the most. I've always been upset at the fact that Fingolfin got to die in combat with Morgoth and not Feanor, he deserved it so much more...