Just marathoned this, what did I think about it?
You (rightfully) thought that Galadriel should have used the ring to make Sauron her sissy cuck chastity caged slave and rule the world. All while wearing the ring as a toe ring, for added humiliation and sex appeal.
>>24828451You thought it was a great mythology for England. That it is a beautiful, masterful, work of great profundity; you realised at once that all "fantasy" that came after took away only the aesthetics of Tolkien, merely skimmed off the top of the Iceberg, and carved it into something grotesque for the sole purpose of entertainment. Never has it been matched in its greatness at what it achieves, and nothing ever will match or succeed it. The very fact that people call it "fantasy" and attempt to lump it in with all the slop that it inspired is a tragedy.
>>24828451Do you now understand why people become tolkienalogists and memorize elven names for rivers and great family trees of dwarves?https://www.youtube.com/shorts/10NJDppKi1k
>>24828468>>24828508>>24828528I think the most interesting thing for moviefag was the chapter The Scouring of the Shire.It really made me think about todays world.
>>24828451You thought it had way more depth than the movies and now you can't enjoy them as much. You also thought the Frodo and Sam part of Two Towers was tedious.
>>24828550What did you think about the Old Forest and Barrow Downs? I haven't spoken to many people that saw the films before reading the books, I was read the books at bedtime as a child as my Mum was by her Dad. And then read them on my own throughout my childhood and adolescence. I think Tom Bombadil is an important character for understanding the world, his great age and his benevolent form of power, the ring is but a trifle to him; and he finds it a source of amusement that creatures large and small, good and evil would regard its power as something so important and tempting.
>>24828595I enjoyed those chapters, but I've been wondering, if the ring was not destroyed, would Tom Bombadil be fine with everything around him turning to shit?
>>24828451Does it really need to be 10k pages? This like marx, but for anti-materialists. Marx also wrote walls of text.
>>24828451Why do people read this when there's Balzac and Tolstoy?
>>24828705I like that your immediate association with basic literacy is Marxism.
>>24828705I'm not a communist but the The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is a worthwhile and entertaining reading, especially if you're into historiography. This, >>24828451on the other hand is nonsense.
>>24828705It's not anywhere near 10,000 pages, in my hardback of the trilogy illustrated by Alan Lee the narrative concludes on page 1069, if you include the appendices which are extraneous to the core story that takes you to 1172. It's not particularly long at all.
>>24828713>Why do people eat apples when there's oranges and melons?The Lord of the Rings is mythological fiction and written in the English language. Tolstoy is realist, as is Balzac, the former writing in Russian, the latter in French. I have enjoyed what I have read of both Tolstoy and Balzac, but firstly I am reading them in translation, and secondly what I am getting out of them is not the same as what I get out of Tolkien, the fact that he wrote in English as a native speaker means that I am appreciating the beauty of its writing it in its original form. A more relevant question would be to ask of people who read Fantasy slop like GRRM or Sanderson why read them when there's Tolkien, and Tolkien alone?
You thought it was amazing but you also wonder why it dominates the genre so completely unlike any other foundational books of the other genres (except possibly Agatha Christie with mystery).>go to a bookstore>go to fantasy section>lord of the rings (new editions)>lord of the rings (deluxe hardcover)>lord of the rings (silmarillion)>go to the (ever shrinking) western section>no riders of the purple sage>go to sci fi section>no Jules Verne or galactic patrol>go to mystery section>very rarely there will be a single copy of the Maltese FalconWhy is this?
>>24828451You thought it was a clairvoyant prediction of how industrial society ultimately demands the invasion of folk cultures by the blackeyed, blackskinned, nameless rabble.
>>24828789I read it. It's 20k pages.
>>24828595I loved the Old Forest episode. Its the first introduction to the eldritch dangers lurking beyond the Shire. It's when the hobbits realise they're not in Kansas anymore.
>>24828705As Tolkien said himself, the book is not long enough.
>>24828713You sound very keen to be mistaken for an intellectual. Good luck with that.
>>24828836Much of that stuff is now out of copyright. There's no market for the books when you can download the material for free.
The part with the wight in the Barrow-down was metal as fuck.
>>24830312yeah, after they beat the wight, they all get naked and frolic through the field together
>>24828595Based fellow Tom Bombadil enjoyer. I think Tom is one of the most unique and important characters in the story, specifically because he is the only one that is completely unaffected by the ring's power. Even Gandalf refuses to touch the ring, and everyone else that does ends up fighting some level of madness and desire for it. Frodo handing Tom the ring is not only a great "oh shit, wtf are you doing?" moment, but is escalated by Tom pulling a french drop, watching Frodo panic, and then tossing it back as if they were playing "got your nose" the whole time. Fuck that faggot Peter Jackson for cutting Tom from the movie and feeling justified in doing so.
>>24828451It was great, but those parts of the Appendices where everyone grows old and dies were extremely depressing. Especially Aragorn's not-suicide and Arwen's death.
