/lit/ - Literature

Tolkein is good. Stop listening to peer pressure. Geez

>>12823641
Do what you like unironically. But just know that you really are wasting your time. There are equally “fun” non fiction books
>inb4 name them

>>12823650
they are getting to me bro. i’m pulling myself away from enjoying it

>>12823651
name them!

Do like the woman in your pic.
Enjoy yourself

>>12823641
No, you're not wasting your time, especially if you're enjoying it. LotR is the tits, and it's more than your typical cheap escapist fantasy. It has a great anti-industrialist message.

>>12823686
u being honest with me bro? also check these dubs

>>12823697
>*walks in*
Nice try, you talking about these dubs?

>>12823641
after the 1:00 mark, christopher talks about just this question of 'escapism', which is a criticism often levelled at tolkien's works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acqOGX62gys
well worth a listen, and a more authoritative view than anybody on this board could give, imo.

>>12823697
Yeah, I'm being honest. But have a little faith in your own taste. If you happen to like a book a lot of people on /lit/ dislike, so what? Writers a lot brighter than anyone here were huge fans of Tolkien, like WH Auden.

i completely fuck myself out of reading books when i watch the movie adaptations. the book is ruined because i imagine the stupid actors when i read it. i guess i'll never read that lotr shit. RIP tolkein bilbo frotting chodemort

Name?

>>12823641
Yes. Tolkien hated nationalsocialism, so i don't understand how everyone can like him. If you don't idolize Hitler then I won't read your biik, simple as that.

>>12823641
Are you 16yo?

>>12824645
That's funny because I'm whatever its called that won't lead to you going
>A THING I CAN MAKE FUN?
And yet despite my horrific brutish bigoted ways I enjoy pomo fiction and have read benjamin/baudrillard etc. Meanwhile you have people sincerely whining an award mentions lovecraft and refusing to read muh white males. But yeah m8 your joke is HYSTERICAL I was roasted.

>>12823641
>because people here said its bad to get lost in fantasy
You are worse than those idiots for literally caring what a bunch of anonymous good for nothing mongrels said about a book.
Enjoy it! It's far superior to all the pseudo intellectual shit these faggots read.

>>12823641
>i genuinely am enjoying it,

You answered your own question mate. Life is generally a pretty melancholy affair, pure joys should be treasured.

>>12823641
this would only be a hot picture if she were barefoot

>>12823641
The first time I read LOTR i wasn't using the internet. I was laid off over the winter and read exactly one chapter per day, every morning, while in a comfy chair with a cup of tea.
You could say I got lost in the fantasy, and to this day was the best reading experience I've ever had.

It's not a drug, my dude. it's not going to launch you into cravings and binges. what the fuck? Enjoy it. Read it slowly, don't skip over the songs. re-read especially good passages. immerse yourself and have a great time. I envy you being able to read this for the first time.

pic related they're Rohirrim steeds.

>>12823709
very interesting. thanks

>>12823641
you're wasting your time seeking the approval of virgins in an anime forum

>>12823641
i just wanna lick a tummy and stick my head in thighs AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>12823641
>erytime it’s so close to pulling me in to its world i forcefully pull myself out
>because people here said its bad to get lost in fantasy
This applies only to The Neverending Story.

>>12823641
Holy shit, imagine being this delusioned by the idea of intellectualism that you can't enjoy a book about two midgets throwing their wedding ring into fire.

>>12823641
>because people here said
LOL

" right before the credits roll, Sam fucking flat-out bricks in Frodo's mouth."

>>12823707
>these dubs
I think you'll find it is in fact, these dubs

People here tend to think that just because literature is a higher brow form of art that all lower brow art forms are useless.

>>12823641
Read if you have not Tolkein's lecture on Beowulf. It is the true basis of the modern fantasy genre. tldr it's okay (and not a waste of time) to be entertained by a story.

yes
t. mme de staël

>>12825462
>People here like me tend to get completely asshurt and think that because literature is a higher brow form of art that all lower brow art forms need to have endless, perpetual threads bitching about how they're totally literature even if it's a fucking video game on this board
Fascinating. Your post doesn't even have anything to do with the OP you fucking newfaggot. Back to >>>/v/ and then >>>/r/eddit jesus fucking christ