ok so I never actually finished lord of the rings always made it through Fellowship and then partway through Twin Towers it's been ~10 years since last attempt so I'm trying again with the audiobooks I have thoughts
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Replying to @selentelechia
It me Fucking Ents Tolkien is so boring I will not apologize for this very good and correct opinion
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Replying to @liminal_warmth @selentelechia
I bet Tolkien's appeal varies hugely by sex.
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Replying to @lumiferrous @selentelechia
Who cares what the hobbits ate for lunch?!?! No one cares! No one cares enough to get a description of every meal And the trees are sooooo boring I don’t get it
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idk what the hell book you read but it wasn't LOTR
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Yeah the one with the old magic forest dude who's like some kind of dancing singing unexplained force of nature that they chill with for no discernible reason right
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Replying to @liminal_warmth @halvorz and
I think the entire corpus of Tolkein criticism hinges around the crucial, "How fucking gay is Tom Bombadil"-question There's Pro-Tom and Anti-Tom camps, plus a niche of "Tom Truthers" who assert that the chapter was written by the government to undermine Tolkein fandom
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in this house we stan Tom and Goldberry
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