/lit/ - Literature★

>>7388 (OP)

Why, yes, dearest Anon, it's truly GOAT fantasy fiction. Disregard everyone telling you it's not, they're just Preparation H-bereft detractors out to soothe their loneliness. ':^)

>>7388 (OP)

>>7389

PS, refer to this thread:

>>6668

>>7388 (OP)

>Tolkein

stopped reading there

John Norman for lovein',

Mein Kamph for red pill chillin',

and Tolkien for ages eleven and under.

I recommend LotR for whoever, whenever. It works best though for somewhere around the teen age bracket.

>>7395

Recommend good fantasy that isn't paraliteratrash, great sage.

>>7395

What age group would you say The Children of Húrin or The Silmarillion are?

>>7391

so at the end?

>>7395

John Green for cuckin'

>>7405

no, not an the end.

>>7388 (OP)

Tolkien isnt the best fantasy writer… but he made a start point of it…

It's got a prose that's from the same era as the technological level of the setting.

>>7810

that was intentional and you know it.

>>7814

Intentional it may have been, enjoyable it most certainly wasn't.

I'm currently reading Tolkien's Beowulf translation, but it has been slow because I've been read about ~100 lines and then checking the commentary section, which is longer than the actual story, obviously, for those lines. The rendering is by far more archaic than anything in LotR and, maybe, the Silmarillion, although it has been a while since I read that (Silm.).

>>7818

Fuck you, you faggot. Lord of the Rings is beautiful.

>>7989

de gustibus.

even though i agree.

before the hobbit and LOTR i hated reading.

the best book you can find at about age 13.

Silmarillion>LotR

If you ever see a faggot bashing Tolkien is because he's clinically retarded or hasn't read the Silmarillion

>>7989

Huh.

Picked that up at a library book sale for fifteen cents. Gotta remember to give it a perusal when I get a chance.

>>8008

>Symmetrical check

Yeah, I will say it is difficult because of the style. Very archaic words and syntax.

So are they worth the time?

>>8080

Shouldn't this thread have answered your question by now?

Not really. It's overrated.

http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=953

>>7388 (OP)

No Tolkein's prose is overrated and escapist. It has a simple view that glorifies rural life and conservatism, and it does not challenge you any more than CS Lewis.

http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=953

>>8819

>>8824

Stop spamming your blog here.

>>8824

>>8819

I'm sorry you were born brain-damaged.

>>7388 (OP)

Yes, depending on your age.

Hobbit is best at 6-8

Lord of the Rings at 9-12

The Books of Lost things, and children of The Children of Húrin at 12 - 14

Silmarillion forever.

Make sure you get "The Atlas of middle earth."

The Lord of the Rings is by far the comfiest book of all time, it's less like reading a story than having a memory recounted to you.

>>7388 (OP)

They're all timeless.

>>12291

Read in order of publication, imo.

>>12295

Yeah you might as well go with that.