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Epic traditional writings Anonymous 01/07/19 (Mon) 06:59:23 No.15546

Post epic chivalrous writings coming from any traditional religions.

Like the Arthurian legend for christianism or the Iliad and the Odyssey. Or things like the Mahabharata and Ramayana in Hinduism.

I'm searching for good spiritual writings that are Lotr-like.

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Anonymous 01/07/19 (Mon) 12:08:35 No.15548

>Lotr like

I still don't see how Lotr is like those epics, Lotr seems more needlessly complex in a fashion Tolkein didn't understand and I'd argue is more related to modern fantasy.

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Anonymous 01/07/19 (Mon) 17:03:12 No.15550

>>15548

Of course it's not as deep as sacred books and books that are specifically made to be theological while historical but still :

>Tolkien wanted to create a mythology for great Britain

>Inspired himself of other ancient mythology

>Use symbols, make a cosmogony…

>Said he made it voluntarily christian in the second writing

>Talks about virtues of the nobility and of the ancients

>His work is in the straight line of traditional thinking (Tolkien being a traditional catholic), example of this can be found in his catachronic (opposite of progressive, I don't know the translation of this word in english) view of history.

While fantasy used the exterior appearance of lotr, there are not in the same category. Fantasy is a degenerate style (eragon, GoT, harry potter,…) which is now modern and totally against the deeper perspective of Tolkien. Also, I don't know, lotr seems quite complexe (I'm talking of the all Tolkien's universe).

tl;dr : I don't ask for dragons and elves, but for knights with virtues and for a traditional view.

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