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Anonymous Wed Mar 24 11:39:10 2010 No.470621 [Reply] [Original]

oh hai just being most influential author of the 20th.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 11:40:10 2010 No.470624 agree!

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 11:42:10 2010 No.470629 Influential on what? Pop culture MAYBE, but not literature.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 11:43:10 2010 No.470632 mah nigga. every sci-fi novel has blatant, shameless elements of tolkien's works now. the ones that don't are shitty.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 11:44:10 2010 No.470633 File: 272 KB, 408x469, 1256057435241.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>470629 go read salinger and huxley high school booiiii :)

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 11:45:10 2010 No.470634 File: 196 KB, 1200x1503, karsh2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 11:46:10 2010 No.470636 Somewhere in England, Michael Moorcock is spinning in his grave. ...what? He's not dead?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 11:46:10 2010 No.470637 >>470629 when a book branches from the literature world into pop culture, is that not a sign of influence?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 11:50:10 2010 No.470648 >>470637 Yes, influence, influence OF pop culture. Tolkien influenced literature, but I'd hardly call him the most influential of the 20th.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 11:51:10 2010 No.470649 >>470648 that was a terrible argument. go write a grade 11 essay about it, child.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 11:52:10 2010 No.470652 What did Tolkien actually contribute? He applied a couple of coats of paint over the skeleton of several mythologies.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 11:52:10 2010 No.470655 >fantasy author >influential in any way that matters pick one

>>	Rodney_Dangerfield !jHDnJkFXPM Wed Mar 24 11:55:10 2010 No.470660 File: 60 KB, 300x275, william_faulkner.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>470621 Hmm.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 11:58:10 2010 No.470670 >>470655 Very strong statement anon. this anon really has a point. inb4 samefag. >not samefag.

>>	Isabelle Huppert !!IRpnwIFOnYO Wed Mar 24 11:58:10 2010 No.470671 >>470652 >>470655 These.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 11:59:10 2010 No.470674 >>470671 >tripfag >influential in any way that matters Pick one.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 12:00:10 2010 No.470675 >>470655 Hahahah, I laughed, it's almost true, but... Lewis Carroll.

>>	Isabelle Huppert !!IRpnwIFOnYO Wed Mar 24 12:00:10 2010 No.470678 >>470674 >LOTR SO GOOD, MAN, I LIKED THE PART WITH THE DWARFS

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 12:01:10 2010 No.470679 >>470678 What part?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 12:02:10 2010 No.470683 >>470678 What is most influental author for you, dear faggot?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 12:02:10 2010 No.470684 >>470678 You are the worst tripfag from this board

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 12:05:10 2010 No.470689 That's not Hemmingway That's not Joyce That's not an author who actually matters outside of the incestuous ghetto of genre fiction

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 12:05:10 2010 No.470693 >>470689 Did you mean: Hemingway

>>	Isabelle Huppert !!IRpnwIFOnYO Wed Mar 24 12:06:10 2010 No.470694 >>470683 It's certainly debatable, but a genre writer who ripped off previously existing mythologies isn't even close.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 12:06:10 2010 No.470699 >>470693 Are you that guy who gets mad about that all the time? :3

Anonymous Wed Mar 24 12:09:10 2010 No.470706

hm... maybe. definitely for fantasy, maybe sci fi too iunno... not really outside those spheres, but his dominance in his field is bigger than any other authors' in theirs...

also any modern author with a continuity/background fetish is probably his fault

Anonymous Wed Mar 24 12:11:10 2010 No.470715

The great thing about Tolkien is that he neither cared nor attained to be an "influential author", unlike half of the other faggots who pass for the heroes of 21st century literature in the minds of /lit/. He was content with telling his fairy-stories.

You all got trolled by an old guy with a pipe who liked elves.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 12:12:10 2010 No.470719 >>470715 No I really don't think he was trolling. You ought not to abuse words in such a way.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 12:13:10 2010 No.470720 >>470715 Fuck, Kafka didn't even want people to READ his books. I think he wins in that argument.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 12:15:10 2010 No.470726 File: 23 KB, 396x479, adolf-hitler.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Sorry I can't hear you over the goosestepping of my soldiers spreading misery throughout the world because of my book.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 12:15:10 2010 No.470728 >>470684 I actually think she's kind of funny . . . in a douchey arrogant way. I'm pretty sure it's intentional.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 12:16:10 2010 No.470730 >>470720 Maybe beacuse he was depressive all the time

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 12:16:10 2010 No.470732 y'all niggers be postin' in a ...

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 12:30:10 2010 No.470764 File: 31 KB, 360x545, robert-jordan-1_5248.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Oh hi, couldn't hear over the sound of being too dead to finish my book...

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 13:02:10 2010 No.470873 File: 70 KB, 842x642, shit.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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