/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9153166]

I thoroughly enjoyed the silmarillion and think its better than iliad/ odyssey/ metamorphosis/ aenead.

Question is a-am I pleb /lit/?

[Anonymous No.9153650]

>>9153166
That's like comparing anal sex to annal six.

[Anonymous No.9153948]

>>9153166
Try reading the old testament instead

[Anonymous No.9153955]

>>9153166
Yes

[Anonymous No.9153959]

>>9153166
try reading the Kalevala instead.

[Anonymous No.9153961]

>>9153166
Metamorphoses? really?
I'm having a hard time with that one

[Anonymous No.9153970]

>>9153166
Joke: Tolkien is better than Homer
Woke: Tolkien and Homer are both INFP and therefore natural born writers

[Anonymous No.9154041]

>>9153650
>nigger to nnigger

[Anonymous No.9154074]

No you're not, the silmarillion will get it's due regard in time.

[Anonymous No.9154087]

>>9153650

[Anonymous No.9154097]

>>9153970
> someone mentioned a MBTI personality type near me.

[Anonymous No.9154247]

>>9153166

After reading this I experienced a profound existential crisis over the realization that the entirety of The Lord of The Rings, was nothing more than the sad, boring, and ultimately insignificant denouement of The Greatest Story Never Told.

[Anonymous No.9154369]

>>9154097

Ooooooo, someone's a J!~

[Anonymous No.9155531]

>>9153166
Of course.

[Anonymous No.9155581]

>>9153970
Even though many great writers are typed INFP, INFPs are not all natural born writers.

What actually happens is that those INFPs who have writing talent excel because of the common strengths all INFPs do share - a dominant preference for Introverted Feeling which lends itself naturally to a deep introspective understanding of one's own emotional states, and by extension via Extroverted Intuition, the emotional states of others.

Moreover, the connections between Introverted Feeling (Fi), Extroverted Intuition (Ne), Introverted Sensing (Si), and Introverted Thinking (Ti) pushes INFPs to search for universal principles which guide the internal world of feelings.

The Fi world is explored and fleshed-out through Ne, whose observations are then compared and logged into the Si catalogue of data, and, using this data, Ti deductively comes to conclusions about the Fi world - the Fi world within themselves, and others.

Fi, amplified here by its dominant position, naturally collects and creates an internal world of aesthetic preferences, all heavily connected to emotive states.

This is why INFPs can make such great writers, but does not necessitate that all INFP's can be great writers.

[Anonymous No.9155656]

Is the stand-alone novel as good as it was in the Silmarillion? I still haven't bothered to check it out despite it being one of my favorite stories.

[Anonymous No.9155695]

>>9153959

I mean I liked The Kalevala, but The Silmarillion is much better imo. I'm sure I'll reread The Kalevala at some point in the distant future, but The Silmarillion is something I reread like every two years. It's not even a Tolkien thing where I do that with other books. The Silmarillion is just beautiful. He managed to combine so many great aspects of European fantasy and culture.

[Anonymous No.9155711]

>>9155656

The Children of Hurin? I read it like two years ago. It's okay. Christopher Tolkien tried to make the story of Turin into something 'normal people' would want to read - so people who would never get past the first chapater of The Silmarilliion because of how it's written.

It has a lot of extra things in it, even compared to Unfinished Tales version because of him being more leneint with his father's notes of what to put in or not, since he only did what he was almost absolutely sure his father was happy with in The Silmarillion or had to put it in to fill gaps.

Anyway, him changing the voice and character of the writing was a big draw off for me. It's still worth picking up and reading once to get some more character development and extended scenes per se. I don't think I'd read it again though.