/lit/ - Literature

Greeks, European mythology and folktales

That he was doing covers of myths from other cultures. The result is good, though.

>>13911160
Marx.

Nothing
He wrote amazing and easily accessible stuff that BTFO'S any finshit literature

Properly understand him: the bible, the prose and poetic eddas, the sagas, beowulf, the bible, beowulf, maybe a bunch of other stuff, and have I mentioned the bible and beowulf?

a soul..

>>13911402
>this is what anglos actually believe
kek

The Kalevala

His letters

He stole from the Finns.

>>13911160
The Bible

Very incomplete chart, is anyone interested in me finishing it?

>>13911160
>understand Tolkien
fucking what? children understand it just fine

>>13912430
Smoothbrain take
You can't fully understand Tolkien unless you are well-versed in Scholasticism.

>>13912428
that blue on black is fucking unreadable
delete it

lord of the rings

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>>13911160
listen to some shitty 80s songs about lotr hes a shit author and was only useful for counterculture memes, he says nothing philologically interesting as a old english philologist

>>13912456
there is something wrong either with your computer or your eyes, it's not hard to read at all

>>13912453
I realize you're probably joking, but he wrote fantasy for a reason. it's meant to enrapture and elevate the imagination, especially of a child. you're meant to get lost inside his works and have them overtake you perception of the world in youth. If you didn't pretend to have battles against orcs and trolls in the woods a s a kid, you might not know what I'm talking about

>>13912936
>If you didn't pretend to have battles against orcs and trolls in the woods a s a kid
I lived in the suburbs and my friends and I pretended to be Pokemon trainers.

>>13913306
We did that too, but LOTR was a typical imaginary world I would go into as well. I was an only child so I ended up having to fill a lot of time playing by myself, after school and post-school times

>>13912428
Blue on black looks like shit and is hard to read

>>13911160
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

>>13912882
My eyesight is good and my screen is well calibrated.
See, here's another anon saying the same >>13914726
Dark blue on black is a very poor choice.

>>13911160
I don't know, but if you want to get into Tolkien I'll leave this here.
Read these books in this order:
1) The Silmarillion: from "Ainulindalë" to "Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin".
2) Beren and Luthien (book).
3) The Silmarillion: "Of Beren and Lúthien" and "Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad"
4) The Children of Hurin (book).
5) The Silmarillion: "Of Túrin Turambar" and
"Of the Ruin of Doriath".
6) The Fall of Gondolin (book).
7) The Silmarillion: "Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath" and "Akallabêth"
8) The Unfinished Tales: Part Two: The Second Age
9) The Silmarillion: Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age
10) the rest of The Unfinished Tales
11) Tales From The Perilous Realm, focus on Leaf by Niggle and Smith of Wootton Major.
12) Do you want more before reading History of Middle Earth? Read a biography, his letters, The Road to Middle Earth, The History of The Hobbit, Master of Middle Earth: The Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien, etc.
13) History of Middle Earth