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14723343 No.14723343 [Reply] [Original]

Are these actually good prose or are they just the best prose normies will ever read?

>> No.14723348

It's alright. I've recently gone through The Fellowship of the Ring again and while reading it I was getting a little annoyed at how often I saw Tolkien use the word "seem" or "seemed."

>> No.14723429

>>14723343
You sat "normies" like if you were some kind of special snowflake. You shit and sweat like anyone else.

>> No.14723442

>>14723429
Idk man, my shits are pretty violent and I don't sweat because my body is a dried out husk

>> No.14723625

How do you pronounce Tolkien?
I always heard it said as TOL-key-en so that's how I said it. 3 syllables.
Now one guy is telling me it's two syllables. He says it like TOL-ken. 2 syllables
Now another guy is saying it's actually TOL-keen. So which is it??

>> No.14723629

>>14723625
tol-keen

>> No.14723650

>>14723625
tolk-ken

>> No.14723657

>>14723625
toll-cunn

>> No.14723662

>>14723625
toll-ken

>> No.14723677

>>14723625
tol-keen

>> No.14723685

>>14723625
Tol-keen, definitely.

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>>14723343
The prose amplifies as the story progresses closer and closer to the climax. The siege of Minas Tirith and then the march on the gates of Mordor, for example, has a lot of very heavy, religious/Biblical-sounding emphasis in the language and it's actually pretty powerful imo. But I would say Tolkien's prose is actually quite nice to read in terms of its general fluidity, and how it aptly demonstrates his ability as a story-teller, of which he certainly seems among the foremost in recent times.

Also, normies don't read LOTR, so I am not even sure why you would render such an estimation. Picrel is from Silmarillion which is written far differently in style than LOTR but I still liked it. It doesn't read as good in the vacuum of being an excerpt, I don't think, but it was a great culmination in context of the actual plot point from which it was taken.

>> No.14724203
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>Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them. Éomer rode there, the white horsetail on his helm floating in his speed, and the front of the first éored roared like a breaker foaming to the shore, but Théoden could not be overtaken. Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Oromë the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young. His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed. For morning came, morning and a wind from the sea; and the darkness was removed, and the hosts of Mordor wailed, and terror took them, and they fled, and died, and the hoofs of wrath rode over them. And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.

For me, Tolkien is the GOAT. But I'll be the first to admit that his style is not for everyone. Some people love it, some hate it. Just read them and find out for yourself!

>> No.14724304

>>14723429
If you love normies so much then it shouldnt bother you to be called one.