LOTR is not, well written prose and yet
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Is LOTR a different thing from the Hobbit or is the Hobbit the first book of LOTR?
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the hobbit is a children's book part of the reason LOTR is not, great, is it started as a honest children's book sequel to The Hobbit and then it kept growing and growing, and Tolkien would write himself into a corner, and _throw the whole fucking thing away_, and start over
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I think I love it? I can’t remember if I tweeted or texted that it’s comforting to read something that has been more thoroughly thought through than, like, the future of the US.
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oh yeah that's the saving grace of all of Tolkien's work: even if the narrative structure is lacking, the _world_ is the most thought-through mythos we (have? had? will ever have?) seen, and so you don't really care about bombadill or the eagles or whatever
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… which is why Wikipedia pages about Middle Earth are more enjoyable to read than LOTR itself is, even if it does get pretty close to Midichlorians at points.
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not wrong
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Replying to @durumcrustulum @tqbf and
(and I say all this as someone who lived and breathed Tolkien for a very, very long time)
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Replying to @durumcrustulum @tqbf and
_looks lovingly at multiple bookshelves full of Sindarin/Quenya/<insert favorite language in Tengwar here> material_
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Honestly the post-LOTR Christopher Tolkein stuff like the Silmarillion is more interesting to me than the LOTR itself for this same reason; also, from Wiki reading, I strongly suspect the underlying stories are more interesting than the LOTR story, which is not that great.
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This is the best Tolkien text. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/unused-audio-commentary-by-howard-zinn-and-noam-chomsky-recorded-summer-2002-for-the-fellowship-of-the-ring-platinum-series-extended-edition-dvd-part-one …
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