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Anonymous Fri Mar 31 23:45:27 2023 No.21857327 [Reply] [Original]

>reading LotR for the first time
>skip past every poem, song, or piece of verse

Genre fiction btw

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 31 23:46:06 2023 No.21857329 >>21857327 maybe this was the right idea. i dropped that trash after trudging through fellowship.

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>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 31 23:53:01 2023 No.21857354 >>21857327 Why would you do that when the verse is much better than the prose?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 31 23:57:41 2023 No.21857372 >>21857354 I find Tolkien's prose to be simple and understated, which is usually a reflection of restraint. Much nicer than purple prose and fits the world well.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 1 00:27:49 2023 No.21857472 Not like you’d understand what you were looking at anyhow

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 1 08:51:14 2023 No.21858738 >>21857327 Unholy brainlets!

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 1 08:53:40 2023 No.21858744 If you skip all the prose as well you'll be a man my son

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 1 15:50:02 2023 No.21859919 >>21857327 >read novel famed for its worldbuilding >skip past the worldbuilding

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 1 21:28:14 2023 No.21861261 >>21857327 just read sword of shannara at that point

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 2 05:07:34 2023 No.21862769 >>21857327 Based, plotonlychads RISE UP!

Anonymous Sun Apr 2 05:09:47 2023 No.21862777
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>>21857327
Oh man this world is amazing, I can't wait to learn more about the lore and about the elves and Gandalf as Frodo and the hobbits adventu-
>HEY DOL MERRY DOL RING A DONG DILLO
>RING A DONG HOP ALONG FAL LAL THE WILLOW
>TOM BOM JOLLY TOM TOM BOMBADILLO
Well, ok that was a bit odd but necessary for the plot to advance, let's see what the next chapter has in store
>HO TOM BOMBADIL TOM BOMBADILLO BY WATER WOOD AND HILL BY THE REED AND WILLOW
Ok that's over with finally the story can resume as norm-
>OLD TOM BOMBADIL IS A MERRY FELLOW BRIGHT BLUE HIS JACKET IS
>AND HIS BOOTS ARE YELLOW

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