Please enter this thread only if you have read The Hobbit and the entire LOTR trilogy.
In this thread I would like to talk about the similarities between the development of The Lord of the Rings and another piece of media that I have recently consumed, that is, the hit manga One Piece by Eiichiro Oda. Before you leave, please do me a favor of reading through this post I had initially written for a One Piece thread on /a/.You know, having read through the LOTR trilogy recently. I can’t help but wish One Piece goes the same way. There are already some similarities. How they both start off as a silly little adventure involving some larger-than-life characters in Romance Dawn/The Hobbit, with the following story getting grander by the chapter into a modern day epic. And both Oda and Tolkien put great emphasis on the absolute scale of their world, and how it all comes together. Imagine if:>One Piece finally ends in the mid/late 2030s. (This is all but CONFIRMED. One Piece might end in YOUR lifetime)>Oda proceeds to spend a decade expanding on and refining the world and its characters, think SBS but times a hundred. I don’t doubt that he already has a lifetime’s worth of world building material written out (Just like Tolkien did) and just needs to sit his ass down and compile it once everything’s said and done.>By the 2050s we get the actual book form of Brag Men or the DF encyclopedia. If Oda’s ambitious enough we even get a Silmarillion-tier creation myth book for the three great eras of the OP world, from 3000 years back (This “era” stuff is also very Tolkien-like)>Some time near the 2100s there are a few adaptations of One Piece out, like Toei Piece or Viz Piece, but none of them are able to quite capture its depth. In comes some fatass genius director and we get a 100-episode definitive adaptation of One Piece (each episode being about an hour long) and it’s hailed as the greatest piece of media produced in this century.>Bonus: There arise manga/shows that are to One Piece what GOT was to LOTR. Some fat fuck questions Luffy’s tax policyI know we probably don’t live in the timeline where kino of this magnitude will come to pass, and that shit like fucking Two Piece seems more likely than this after One Piece finally ends, but I can’t help but have faith in Oda not being like the rest.
>enter LotR thread>find sperg ranting about one piece>exit LotR thread
I have, in middle.school, over 20 years ago. Loved them. Didn't like the Silmarillion, or however it's spelled.. about to re-read all of them , though.Btw, I remember the films came out while I was in highschool, or.soon after, and I absolutely hated them. The imagery I had in my head was far more based.
>>24753781Ok dickbag this is a LotR thread i'm gonna have to ask you get your ass back to /a/.
>>24753832Where then should I go if I wanted to talk about both, in equal depth, and compare them to one another?
>>24753781Didn't read.
>>24753775>be kid me>read the Hobbit and fellowship>Quit reading LotR and read Redwall insteadAnimals are cooler than elves and orcs and stuff
>>24753814Wait for me!
I've only read The Hobbit.Tra la la, fa la la, here I am, in your thread, tra la la, fa la la.
>>24753895If you would like a Media Literacy Award to be bestowed upon you then you might have better success at Reddit.
>>24753775I've read themHarry Potter books > LOTR booksLOTR movies > Harry potter movies
>>24754116Can you be a fag elsewhere? I can't be the only autist here that has read both LOTR and OP and loved their scale and worldbuilding. It's always so disheartening to see any fucking attempt for discourse beyond the usual shitflinging be called reddit.
>>24754168It's comparing Lord of the Rings to One piece, bro. It's the most reddit thing I've ever heard. Even Lotr is pretty reddit by itself.
>>24753775Silence lotr fan, a man who read the Hobbit once and the first chapter of lotr but dropped it in middle school and also watched Babylon 5 is speaking.
>>24753781I'm not really sure GOT was intended as a "response" to LotR, or if it was it wasn't really unique in that regard. LotR was published in the 50s and GOT in the 90s. Between those two a huge number of books like Elric and Dune already subverted just about every trope in the fantasy genre.
>>24753781Fpbp
>>24753781HahahahHh
>>24753781Neck yourself.
I just finished the Silmarillion
>>24753781I don't read anime shit but based post. Keep making the retards here seethe.
>>24753775I’m on the two towers book it’s pretty good so far
I have They‘re gay
>>24754205>reddit reddit reddit Leave this thread and never come back.
>>24754648Hey man, I don't have a problem with redditors. They're livin their life same as me, but I can absolutely recognize when a sperg would be better suited there, and to be frank, a long form post comparing a fantasy series to an anime is not for this board
