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The purest form of literature is the fairytale. Until the literary word comes to this conclusion or brought to, there will never be a true renaissance in literature

>> No.17958504

Get off my board, Niel Gaiman. Your books suck

>> No.17958516

>>17958504
Silence, misomyth

>> No.17958540

>>17958492

Amazng. Every word of what you just said is wrong.

Pure has no meaning here. The literary world has always valued fairy tale. "True" has no meaning here. If there is a renewed interest in literature, it won't be because the plots suddenly got more basic.

>> No.17958562

>>17958540
>fairytale
>basic
Amazing. Every word of what you just said is wrong

>> No.17958964

>muh fairytales
>muh monomyth
trash

>> No.17958977

>>17958492
Except the fairytale is an oral tratidion first and foremost

>> No.17959007

Tolkien like all reactionary writers believe that the literary tradition consisted entirely of like-minded stories to his, completely ignoring how literature was never once in its lifespan a static entity and produced a great deal of contrarians throughout all ages.

>> No.17959027

>>17959007
He was a philologist, mate. Pretty sure he understood.

>> No.17959032

>>17958492
Not purest, but maybe most elementary.

>> No.17959042

>>17958540
i agree with op being an idiot, but you also sound like an absolute faggot so I am torn.
> Pure has no meaning here
> True has no meaning here.

>> No.17959071

>>17959027
Actually, his submissiveness to the western canon is precisely why I believe Tolkien has a misguided conception of what literature actually is.

>> No.17959162

>>17959071
Help me understand, are you saying that his misreading of the Western canon led to a propagation of pseudo-canonicity in derivative works? Because your post reads as though you believe Tolkien was simultaneously yoked to literary traditions he didn't understand, but so familiar with those traditions that he (knowingly) replicated/used them.

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>>17958964
>monomyth

>> No.17959260

>>17959042
I also agree both of you are idiots as well. The other more so

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>>17958977
Yes

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>>17959007
Somebody clearly has not read On Fairy-Stories and it reeks

>> No.17959510

>>17958492
You should read Cees Nooteboom - In the Dutch Moutains

>> No.17959669

>>17958492
technically speaking, this whole shithole website is basically a factory of neo-folklore