Why do people like picrel so much?I'm about to travel nonstop for work over the next two months and will have hours of downtime every day. Is LOTR+Hobbit+Silmarillion a good combo, or should I pick up something else?
Yes, it is good and you should read it.
it's silly fantasy for teenagersget yourself something actually good instead
>>23627093It's good
People only pretend not to like it. They have to keep up their discerning, high-brow image by reading books set in the real world. Pity them and enjoy the comfiest books ever written.
>>23627576>comfy>When my bro Maedhros fucking dies
>>23627093Basically it's comfy and cozy, lots of descriptions and elaborate world-building, the actual meat of the book is fairly childish and silly, it's your banal ''good vs evil'' story
LotR is special because you can feel the author's love in every page. He loves his setting, loves his characters (be they lofty elves or humble hobbits) loves his made-up languages and loves all the Norse epics and Germanic myths he took his ideas from.Compare that to highbrow fiction, which is often the product (even when very good) of neurotic losers raging at the world around then.
>>23627583he had it coming
>>23627102It isn't good. Insufferable people like LOTR. Cringelord nonsense and basically the equivalent of being a male harry potter fanboy.
>>23627463>something actually goodLike the neurotic romantic fantasies of some frostbitten slav shoved to the curtains of Europe 200 years ago?
stormlight archive is a better combo
