So many have failed to topple the adventures in middle earth

The Chad WWI veteran vs the Virgin Vietnam dodger

his main characters aren't miserable fucks

"I did begin a story placed about 100 years after the Downfall, but it proved both sinister and depressing. Since we are dealing with Men, it is inevitable that we should be concerned with the most regrettable feature of their nature: their quick satiety with good. So that the people of Gondor in times of peace, justice and prosperity, would become discontented and restless — while the dynasts descended from Aragorn would become just kings and governors — like Denethor or worse. I found that even so early there was an outcrop of revolutionary plots, about a centre of secret Satanistic religion; while Gondorian boys were playing at being Orcs and going around doing damage. I could have written a 'thriller' about the plot and its discovery and overthrow — but it would have been just that. Not worth doing."
-J.R.R. Tolkien, on why he never wrote A Song of Ice and Fire

Although he was traditional, he never intended to make his writing a hyper catholic allegory, like Narnia. Catholic notions of good vs evil, power, and other things absolutely come out in his work, but its organically written.

unironically this, GRRM is on record hating war while never having a part of it, so he writes this 'dark realist' fantasy world that is nothing like actual medieval history, its overly brutal, rapey, and dark.

Tolkien hated war because he experienced it, but nonetheless wrote about it in a conflict of good vs evil because he recognized its necessity, thats the entire purpose of the self-insert hobbits. its just the right thing to do sometimes, etc.

Had expertise in his topic. Lord of the Rings was grounded in Tolkein's back ground. Not spur of the moment stuff. Made use of his knowledge. Most modern Fantasy writers are largely amateurs and don't understand the amount of effort it actually equires.

do you think hobbits played videogames? it would be comfy being a hobbit living in an agrarian society, smoking pipe weed and eating all day then relaxing with some WoW.

a true craftsman knows when he's out of his depth so good on him. george lucas on the other hand...

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Tolkien will always be my favorite fantasy author. I've read quite a lot of fantasy in my life but his is special. Epic but detailed and full of heart.

This is why no matter how much Martin tries or his fanboys try, Song of Ice and Fire will never be able to come ven close to what Tolkien created, Middle-Earth is the only fantasy world I ever wanted to be transported to as a reader.

Tolkien's work is a gift. A true gem.

Hedonists refuse to believe beauty is a pure and objective expression of humanity in a transcended form. Lord of the Rings is a timeless incarnation of the beauty and poetry of life, an ascension of our interpretation of the universe to a higher plane of meaning. Harry Potter has a shadow of this expression- enough allusion towards it to draw out the higher feelings of young, impressionable readers, yet not enough to challenge them, to educate them. Harry Potter is about a special place where everyone is accepted for who they are (besides the blatantly nasty and incorrigible bully group), yet are categorized by some unearned, meaningless expression of what they think makes them special. It's escapism in its purest form. The world of Middle Earth is quite different. It exists beyond the subjective view of the reader. Though a complete world of fantasy, it feels like a real place in a way that the world of Harry Potter can not. This is because Tolkien expresses not only history and spirituality in this world, but it infuses these in his world as objective, constant aspects of humanity. They are not opinions, they are facts set in stone. Thus, we believe the WORLD, whereas in Harry Potter readers believe how they would exist in SUCH a world. The difference between these two perspectives, and therefore between the two works, is that the former presents life as needing to be accepted for how it is, and the latter presents life as needing to be made acceptable. One is truthful to life, the other presents a challenge that can never be completed. Thus the content gravitate towards one, and the wanting-but-never-getting to the other.

This board is moving no fast no one will notice I can't imagine anything more cucked than having a daughter

>the Virgin Vietnam dodger

the most chad things you can do at the time.

nam dodgers did acid and got all the unshaved preaids pussy by making music

no, video games are degenerate

so is this the incel thread?
i highly advise you all to seek coitus immediately

He was far closer to the real world that created all the source myths and stories, and understood their linguistic roots in how things came to be named. Now we have pulp authors with a pulp understanding of life.

>never existed in the books
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Tolkien was a genius to put it there though. It really didn't have to be.