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Anonymous Thu, Aug 9, 2018 23:33:03 No.11597432 [Reply] [Original]

Tolkien is eternal. One thousand years from now, people will have forgotten this writer or that poet from the 20th Century, but they will still be reading The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He's done it. He is everlasting.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 9, 2018 23:34:32 No.11597441 File: 231 KB, 1210x1545, Rembrandt - The Evangelist Matthew Inspired by an Angel.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Much like the religion he drew his inspiration from.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 9, 2018 23:35:50 No.11597446 >>11597432 I've never read any Tolkien since I read The Hobbit when I was like 10, but goddamn do I want get around to it.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 9, 2018 23:38:54 No.11597465 >>11597432 It will be studied as a historical phenomenon: the final myth Europe produced before succumbing to mass domestication and the squabbling hordes of mystery meat

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 9, 2018 23:42:43 No.11597488 >>11597465 A myth analogous to the True Myth from which he drew his inspiration.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 10, 2018 02:29:52 No.11598151 >>11597432 Is he drunk

>>	f Fri, Aug 10, 2018 02:37:01 No.11598176 >>11597432 >this writer or that poet from the 20th Century i feel this ogden nash is sorely under appreciated

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 10, 2018 02:42:21 No.11598195 >>11597488 >analogous

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 10, 2018 03:57:18 No.11598384 He will be another Alexandre Dumas. A fairly mediocre writer that still managed to achieve immortality.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 10, 2018 06:49:36 No.11598791 >>11598151 he was indeed drunk in that picture, it was taken at a fan gathering in the Netherlands in some Hobbit-themed bar or something

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 10, 2018 06:54:43 No.11598797 File: 53 KB, 500x548, escapism.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 10, 2018 07:01:40 No.11598816 >>11597432 He's already forgotten.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 10, 2018 07:08:24 No.11598839 >>11598797 based

Anonymous Fri, Aug 10, 2018 07:12:48 No.11598849

>>11597432
>dildo braggings
>slay le dragongs
>big mage with powerful spells, woah
>orcs vs. humans
>virgin elve pussies
>took an arrow in to the kne
>"run, fools" -- Gandhi
>spiders_attack_the_gemblos_while_they_sleep.mpg
>the little dude is actually a huge hero dude
>(size don' matter, kids [buy muy books])
>hop on my griffon, master Harry

He was a fucking retard

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 10, 2018 07:27:02 No.11598879 >>11598849 based

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 10, 2018 08:37:15 No.11599030 File: 107 KB, 564x590, 1487617892849.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I wish TLoTR was longer desu. I've been rereading it slowly and savoring it but I'm already halfway through

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 10, 2018 13:37:59 No.11600163 >>11599030 >a noldor >noldorians

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