Discussion relating to J.R.R Tolkien and his books. Am I the only one who found the Lord of the Rings to be incredibly boring?
Can we have a J.R.R Tolkien thread going?
Hudson Turner
Austin Sullivan
Nah, you're not the only one.
Not me though, you fucking faggot with a shit taste.
Nathaniel Gutierrez
>there will never be a fantasy series like LoTR again
I especially hate writers bringing up real life medieval Europe as their basis for their shithole of a medieval world. There are only a few who really feels like a fantasy world, like Earthsea for example. And God help if they go into medieval politics.
Ian Taylor
I wanted to rip my hair out while reading the books. I like the story and everything but there was just too much detail. It was boring af
Aiden Kelly
>reading his fairytale short stories
He just loves grumpy wizards, doesn't he?
Austin Martinez
hello plebs
Nicholas Hughes
This. They're not educated enough to do a proper historical fiction with all the intrigue and feudalism they could ever want, so they half-ass a fantasy series so they can play medieval simulator but with wizards and dragons in the background.
Need more fantasy with truly fantastic worlds.
Jonathan Collins
more like comfy af
Michael Peterson
Reading lotr brought me to the brink of suicide
Liam Jones
Just be Gandalf the white after the balrog, how can books be real if magic isn't real?
Juan Bell
Tolkien was an absolutely horrible writer, but he created an incredible setting so people overlook his utter inability to write prose.
Logan Parker
He could outwrite everyone in his thread. His style just leaned towards erudition since there weren't exactly any other models for the scale of work he was doing, save for myths and the Bible.
Christopher Peterson
Jesus, I hope you don't think you're remotely accurate. If you think Tolkien can't write, your taste was poisoned by shit.
Logan Morales
I wish I hadn't seen the films so many times before deciding to read the books, I think my awareness of the whole plot made it a little dull. It still was beautifully written in my opinion.
Lincoln Sanchez
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Hunter Parker
>things plebs say
Kayden Powell
I found it boring at parts, like literally every other book.
I loved LOTR. Tolkien is underappreciated for his prose, as well as his poetic genius. The Song of Beren and Luthien was especially good. Beats their story in the Silmarillion by a long shot.
Alexander Gutierrez
Don't tell Gaskun that.
Lincoln Collins
Just finished Fellowship and kind of sagged through it. I hear Two Towers is a little faster. I have around 70 pages left of The Silmarillion, but I haven't felt inspired to pick it up in weeks.
Brody Miller
It's obvious Tolkien took his inspiration from folklore, and went hardcore about creating an original world from it.
Why can't new authors do the same? Why do so many keep regurgitating his shit?
There's hundreds of different worthwhile, real life cultures to draw from. Slavic folklore in particular, I've heard, is quite interesting.
Leo Long
Because most fantasy authors only care about fantasy cliches instead of the actual mythologies they were based on.
Hudson Sanchez
His poetry is pretty nice, and it really helps to sell the stories they're in. They make it feel like there are parts of Arda and Middle Earth outside of the locales we actually see in the story.
Also, Donald Swann's Tolkien settings are pretty good too.
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Austin Hernandez
>Slavic folklore in particular
our folklore is mostly about scaring children away from danger. "Hey kids, don't go to the forest alone or Baba Yaga will eat you!" or a communist times one: "Run away from a black car with tinted windows, it's the reaper!"
Justin Cruz
Did LOTR remind any else of WWI/WWII?
Logan Wilson
plebismus maximus
Logan Wright
Croatian Tales of Long Ago, best Slavic myth
Camden Davis
I want to write an epic, but I'm not a great writer. I wouldn't bother if there was fucking anyone doing that at the moment, but nobody else is so it's up to inadequate me.
Ethan Davis
tolkien's prose is beautiful senpai
fantasy is supposed to read like ancient myth and the bible
Nicholas Jackson
This thread should be about J R instead.
Brandon Bell
He was a good scholar-poet, he was.
Easton Kelly
I forget: who shot him again?
Carson Baker
You cowards havent even read his top tier children's book.
Protip: its the beautiful, Tolkien-illustrated pic related.