/lit/ - Literature

>>19207769
When you put it this way he seems even more based than I already thought he was.

>Disdain for everyone else, glorification of his own views, and a complete hypocrite
Sounds based to me.

he sounds based unlike you, you whiny continental faggot cuck

>>19207769
>He’s literally the Eternal Anglo. Disdain for everyone else
Except he vocally shits on things like Shakespeare and Hobbits as an allegory for the English is anything but flattering. Sorry to say you're a retard.

>>19207769
He liked Mary Renault's Greek novels.

Tolkien based.

>>19207769
You know he admired Celts and held Celtic mythology in high regard, right? He's literally the polar opposite of the eternal Ang*o

>>19207831
>He liked *some degenerate anglo dyke*
woah

another thread where some eurobeaner seethes about the English

>>19207769
>then simps for Jews.
Why are anglos always like this, they even had a jewish prime minister.
Is there some sort of anglo-semitic alliance?

Autism can and should work wonders

>>19207867
England is in Europe. Seethe more, you're stuck with us forever

>>19207769
wtf I like Tolkein now?

>>19207769
Don't forget he literally rips off his plot from Plato's Republic. Kek what a hack

>>19207875
Anglos are the jews of the whites.

>>19207831
>literally proto slashfic that shilled the “dude everyone in the antiquity was a faggot” narrative
So he’s not only a hypocritical kikelover, but also a raging faggot as well. He hated Dune because it had hardcore themes, but faggotry makes his Christcuck buddy swell.

>>19207831
Interesting
>>19207939
> “dude everyone in the antiquity was a faggot” narrative
cope.. it's called the truth

>>19207769
>>doesn’t like Homer
>>doesn’t like Dante
>>doesn’t like Vergil
>>doesn’t like Arthurian Legends post Gawain because they’re too French
>>dislikes the GrecoRoman mythologies because they’re too degenerate
>>is a Christcuck whose entire work revolves around being “gud”
>>entire LotR is basically “technology BAAAAAAAAAAAD but being a Norf smoking weed GUD”
Basically a poor man's Wagner.

>>19207842
No he actually disliked Celtic mythology

> The publisher’s reader commented in 1937 that the book the Hobbit had “something of that mad, bright-eyed beauty that perplexes all Anglo-saxons in the face of Celtic art.”

> Tolkien replied “Needless to say they are not Celtic! Neither are the tales. I do know Celtic things (many in their original languages Irish and Welsh), and feel for them a certain distaste: largely for their fundamental unreason. They have bright colour, but are like a broken stained glass window reassembled without design. They are in fact ‘mad’ as your reader says—but I don’t believe I am.”

He is the ultimate Anglo

>>19207814
What did Tolkien think about Shakespeare??

I am 100% convinced all but 1 or 2 posters in this thread have never actually read anything by Tolkien in their life yet have an 'understanding' of him derived precisely from threads like these and other pseudo-intellectual exercises like pop news or e-celebrity reviews.
In short, cope, seethe, dilate, all of you will never be a real woman, and a little less than half of you will never be white either.

>>19207769
he sounds based af

>>19208263
Who cares?
We are not bothered with what Stephen King thinks of Cervantes.

>>19208430
I've read Tolkien

>>19208541
Stephen King was never a scholar of early medieval English literature.

>>19208541
Well I'd consider Tolkien considerably above King. And I'd be interested in his opinion considering he was very well versed in English literature and history... And it's also fucking Shakespeare? I'm especially curious as to why he didn't like Dante or the Greco-roman stuff too.

>>19208430
but Varg told me Tolkien was a secret pagan anon

>>19207927
Krauts are the Kikes of whites. It’s just that Anglos are their evolved form.

>>19207769
tolkien is reddit as fuck, not just his writing but him as a person

>>19207927
They're actually the people on earth the least like jews if you go by rates of endogamy and cultural adherence to contracts vs kinship.

>>19207939

This is the dumbest take on Renault I've ever heard.

>>19207769
He doesn't say technology bad he just shows how it isn't modern convenience that makes people happy it's the little things that have always been there. The hobbits live simple but happy lives.

>>19209655
he illustrated through the palantir that it's the lost understanding of technology's implications that is hurtful to civilisation, not the technology itself.

It's interesting. They've recently discovered highly complex mechanics created by the greeks to explain the solar system. it's compared to a modern computer.

>>19210054
where can i read about that greek computing stuff, anon

>>19210076
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

>>19210085
thanks, B

genuinely pathetic

>likes tales of topographic oceans
>likes inklings
there is no better combination

>>19207769
Kek tell me more op

>>19208541
Holy fuck...Tolkien ethered

>>19208907
I wouldn’t.

It has been a disaster for fantasy literature that rather than the poetic masterwork Titus Groan the postwar novel that gathered the most traction in the popular consciousness has been Tolkien's boring, meandering, characterless work of endless walking and repackaged mythology. All fantasy for decades after The Lord of the Rings was copying the bland adventure, the one macguffin to rule them all. To copy Peake, these hack authors would have had to actually work, to create interesting characters with interesting relationships, and intricately plot their stories.

>>19207769
>doesn’t like Dante
Really? How is that possible?

>>19211507
Too degenerate for him. He doesn’t like the Southorns.

>>19208940
Well anyone who likes trees must worship odin, its only logical. This is why odinism is so strong in japan.

>>19211499

I like Lotr for what it is, but I agree.

And you can really see the progression Nietzsche warned us when he criticized Wagner. Everything would become more spectacular, more symbolic and more dissonant with the our present realities. There is some kind of absolutely deft romanticism going from the succession of Wagner to Tolkien.