No body of work compares to Tolkien's, not in breadth or depth or quality. He is the greatest. He created many new genres, and yet is champion of them all. Read him today.
Where to start with Lovecraft?
>>24114979The Trial
>>24114949As far as fantasy goes, I'd agree with you.
He was a children's author, anon. Yes, he wrote some very GOOD children's books that are classics and should be read today, but calling him the greatest of all time just makes you sound like a child.
>>24115005Shut the fuck up. Oh, you read your "morally ambiguous" works written by "literary" authors which actually have nothing to say, on God and man. You read Degeneracy unchained. Tolkien would sort you out, he saw the world, he even fought against the vile Vatican II.
>>24115019It's ok to try reading some adult books, anon. You might even find you like them.Also lol at the notion that literary works are necessarily morally ambiguous or degenerate. Dostoevsky, one of the great writers of the 19th century, was a shameless moralist and political/cultural reactionary to his bones and all of his novels are drenched in it.
>>24114949His world is a cathedral. I don't think any other author in history has written a cathedral. People have written warehouses, post offices, high schools, Protestant churches, big boxes, casinos, motels, bunkers, but no one has written a Gothic cathedral.
>>24115027Can you you come back down to earth please? The man wrote about little men with hairy feetVatican II and Tolkien are both cringe and beloved by people of the 1960's and 70's.
Yep, Pynchon and Tolkien are the greatest writers in history. They're like yin and yang: opposites that complete the entirety of the universe.
>>24115047He also wrote about Nazgul, etc., so that's a bit dishonest m9-1
>>24114949Wagner is better. Tolkien ripped off Wagner.
