/lit/ - Literature

The Lord of the Rings. Especially the Sam and Frodo bits

>>6314415
not looking for a joke

>>6314420
Wasn't making a joke. Sam and Frodo are some of the truest best friends in all literature

>>6314430
mmm youre right the sexual tension almost completely overehelmed the whole ring story

>>6314430
well i'm not looking for trash
LOTR is hardly what i would call "literature"

>>6314436

The guy is wrong about Frodo and Sam, but to call LOTR trash, or not "literature", is retarded as fuck.
I was going to help you, but I don't promote the education of plebs.

>>6314415

The relationship between Frodo and Sam is an idealized master-servant relationship, as Tolkien saw it.
It certainly isn't a realistic description of any modern day friendship.

can this not be a thread about the fucking lord of the rings? not interested in genre fiction here. might as well recommend me some YA shit

>>6314412
The X Files

>>6314457
Fuck off to reddit plebian

>>6314457
Yeah theres this series called harry potter you may have heard of it its literally all about friendship. If that doesn't help you can always watch a shonen anime like fullmetal alchemist brotherhood its all about friendship & shit. Plus winry is good fap material. Frodo and sam are also good fap material but youre too wrapped up in your own faggotry to see that. Emma Watson is pretty sexy too. Did you hear katy perrys latest single? Her british boyfriend russel sure is smart. probably smarter than you anon-kun since you cant seem to figure out that acting like an asshat is a sure way for people to be unhelpful and obnoxious towards you on 4chan

>>6314432
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>>6314502

;_;

>>6314478
maybe i will. if i could i'd downvote all these unhelpful comments

>>6314462
only decent answer in this thread, but it's a tv show.

>>6314412
Book of the New Sun has a strong focus on types of love and how they may or may not mix with friendship, so it may be what you are looking for.

>>6314556
Don't worry about it. Take it to heart, the only lesson here is that you shouldn't ever basically say that something like >>6314436

The question is a very sound and good one, and if you keep humble you will get answers I am sure, I am also interested. You have to have a thick skin here and at the same time you have to get the underlying point people are harshly making, don't make broad stupid statements about a massive work of literature, don't ever ever unironically call something ""literature"" and idk. Persevere.

>>6314432
like that scene where Frodo
inserted
his
bare
unprotected
finger into the ring was certainly very touching

The don quixote scenes with sanchos donkey lol

>>6314602
Many characters had their way getting their finger into the ring. I think LOTR is a story of slut-shaming, the ring being an artifact of evil and all that

>>6314582
I guess I just don't like fantasy literature, which is what everyone here seems to suggest. I thought /lit/ was more patrician but maybe I am mistaken.

>>6314412

No Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn up in this thread?

Were George and Lenny related? If not, then feeliest friends in american obesity porkbeliterature.

Sharpe and that Irish bloke he hangs with.

On the Road is all about Sal and Dean and the attendant sexual tension

>>6314412
the book that is probably closest to what you are looking for is One Day by David Mitchell

unfortunately it is a pile of shite
lots of people liked it tho

>>6314615
Tolkien is patrician. It's plebian to dismiss something because it's fantasy, especially considering many famous classics were at the time "genre".

>>6314608
lol we are onto something

the eye of sauron was very similiar to vagoo. the ring kept fooling everyones mind.

>>6314624

Maybe, but Tolkein is an awful practitioner of his genre.

>>6314412
Aubrey-Maturin series.

>>6314624
Tolkien and Richard Adams were the only good fantasy writers.

>>6314660

>>6314647
Nah, many of his works are very good.

>>6314615

You just dont get it do you?

Only ONE (1) person in this thread mentioned LOTR, and you went off on a samefagging spree about how LOTR sucks and how you are too patrician to discuss LOTR.

YOU made this thread about Frodo and Sam and their homosexual relationship, nobody else did.

The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis. It's not fiction but it's an amazing book. You'll truly ubderstand things better after reading it OP.

>>6314615
You are young.

>>6314412
Demian by Hesse if you like heavily symbolic fuckbois
A Separate Peace by Knowles if you like coming of age fuckbois

John le Carré's "Our Game" deals with friendship in a certain way.
But it's a spy novel, don't know if that's your thing.

>>6314457
>genre fiction
I still don't understand this term. Doesn't all fiction fall under some genre?

>>6314660
God damn it. I was hoping to look into more fantasy literature, and I'd only had familiarity with Tolkien, Lewis, and Rowling.

Don Quijote

>>6314962
It does. But it's a derogatory term used for what some consider to be shitty sf.

>>6314968

Start with the Wolfe.

Also I have a question : Is sexual tension inherent in every male-female friendship? Because I had quite a few of those in my life and failed to detect any such thing in many cases.

Narcissus and Goldmund by Hesse, idealized but fucking beautiful

>>6314412
If you're having sex and fighting you're not friends. You are in a casual romantic relationship.

>>6315076
>Is sexual tension inherent in every male-female friendship?
no
especially if both of you are engaged in another relationship

>>6315076

Not in my experience. Then again, maybe I'm just too socially inept to have noticed they all wanted the D.

>>6315770

Oh thank you, this is exactly my case. I have this really fantastic friend who's been like a sister to me these past 10 years, we're both in long term relationships and I never thought of her that way.

the outsiders S.E. Hinton

>>6314867
probably older than you chap

>>6315766
Bullshit. You can be but do not have to be friends and have sex and fight. However, you are not platonic friends.

>>6316084
n1