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How can one author have so much SOVL?

>> No.18587786
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18587786

>>18587782

>> No.18587791

>>18587782
Simple: Be Catholic.

>> No.18587858

Didn't Tolkien steal from the Finns though?

>> No.18587872

>>18587791
But I don't like popery.

>> No.18587874

>>18587858
You can't steal something that doesn't belong to anyone.

>> No.18587876

>>18587858
Steal what? He made up languages and was inspired by Finnish grammar, but his stories are original and inspired by Germanic tales (Anglo Saxon and Norse)

>> No.18587877

>>18587858
No.

t. Finn

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18587918

Is his translation of Green Knight any good?

>> No.18588013

>>18587786
beautiful quote

>> No.18588023

>>18587786
>>18587791
PMI. If you're a fat athiest, then you'll end up writing about characters squatting in fields.

>> No.18588340

>>18587782
By stealing from Kalevala

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>"ackshually, the silmarillion takes inspiration from this finnish myth, therefore popular thing BAD"
Nobody cares. Nobody is impressed that you read the wikipedia article on the kalevala. You're not interesting. Being contrarian is not a substitute for a personality. seethe, cope, and dilate.

>> No.18589437

>>18587858
He stole from a lot of places it's great.

>> No.18589507

>>18587858
this is such a stupid meme

>> No.18589535
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He wrote by hand. Not some shitty typewriter or computer.

His soul flows directly into the words.

>> No.18589623

>>18589535
>that handwriting
holy soul

>> No.18589643

>>18587858
Didn't the Finns steal from their ancestors?

>> No.18589659

>>18587786
The Master

>> No.18589810

>>18587918
I liked it, haven't read any other translations though.

>> No.18589924

>>18589535
now i can see why elvish languages look like elvish

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>>18587786
Unironically a based and true quote. The kind of art you create reflects the sort of person you are, and your view of what the world is like. If you are an ugly person on the inside, with an ugly view of the world, you will create ugly art. On the other hand, if you believe that the world, the created order, flows from an origin that is good and beautiful, your art will reflect that, instead.

>> No.18590003

Reminder that it has now literally, officially, conclusively been proven that Frodo and Sam were INTENDED to be gay and Tolkien was in all likelihood a closeted homosexual himself:

https://www.polygon.com/lord-of-the-rings/22550950/sam-frodo-queer-romance-lord-of-the-rings-tolkien-quotes

>> No.18590173

>>18590003
>the ring is a metaphor for homophobia
Mind. Fucking. Blown.

>> No.18590188

>>18589954
But what would he think about modern England? Isn’t it ugly now?

>> No.18590511

>>18590003
based

>> No.18591388

>>18587918
It's great, and the included version of The Pearl may be the best available.

>> No.18591672

>>18587791
Thankfully Catholicism specifically has a minimal imprint on his work, actually. Even the monotheism present is relatively subdued.

>> No.18591688

>>18589535
Incorrect. He handwrote a notable minority of the time but usually used his Hammond typewriter.

>> No.18592531

>>18590003
why would i care what some literal whos say and imprint on an author. they are just a step below fanfiction, a shit stain on creativity, leeches of ideas.

>> No.18592616

>>18587782
By being an Englishman, the most soulful race of Europe and the world.

>> No.18593307

>>18591672
It's so Catholic it even has a reference to Mary worship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoladU8AlUE

>> No.18594264

>>18587786
simply sublime.

>> No.18594282

>>18587786
In letter #52 he laments that people aren't going full Uncle Ted "dynamiting factories and power-stations"

>> No.18594313

>>18594282
i cant even imagine a world without electricity

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>>18589535
>Then when the 'end' had at last been reached the whole story had to be revised, and indeed largely re-written backwards. And it had to be typed, and re-typed: by me; the cost of professional typing by the ten-fingered was beyond my means.

Must have taken bloody ages.

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>>18591672
>The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism.

[Letters of JRR Tolkien, letter 142]

>> No.18595837

>>18589954
What a motivating insight.

>> No.18597154

>>18592616
A Catholic Englishman

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>>18597154
English Catholics actually tend to wind up pretty cool.

>> No.18597313

>>18589954
Explain Miyazaki then.

>> No.18597326

>>18592531
It's literally one single autist who is trying to get us to care about this frivolous shit.

>> No.18597331

>>18587782
Cause reasons

>> No.18597482

>>18587786
Saving this to show to every single smarmy non-fiction faggot who says fantasy has no utilitarian purpose.