/lit/ - Literature

Meh, I don't want to waste time reading it.

I'll just wait for the movie....

Someone obviously has not read DnD fanfic.

Pic related, it's OP.

I smell a cave troll (pic related).
Oldfag here... back in the day, the criticism I heard most often of LOTR was (a) that it was escapist fantasy for little boys. Nowadays, the criticisms are (b) that he was a bad prose stylist and (c) it's boring.
I think (a) has been destroyed because of the later published writings (from The Silmarillion on) and because of the movies, which were massively enjoyed by people of both sexes and all ages.
(b) started to come on in the 90s as a response to its continued great popularity. "Sure it's popular, but the writing is crap" -- amusingly the reverse of what the publishers thought the reception would be to it in 1954.
As for (c), LOTR spawned a huge genre of fiction that has continued to be popular up to the present, even making their way into tabletop and video games. The tropes that Tolkien used are so well-known now that a lot of modern fantasy just skips a lot of details and cuts straight to the swords and sorcery. Thus modern readers reading LOTR after years of other stuff tend to think it's boring.
Maybe in 100 years or so people will be able to make a more even-handed assessment of it. Right now it's all basically "I hate it because my little brother / that annoying twerp from my English class / my hippie aunt love it".
Peace out

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>Trolls aren't in Tolkien.

What?

No, and no decent person would. However, seeing as how this is 4chan, that doesn't say much for the whole.

>Women are subordinate.

Let's see you do that without their permission. Or at all, summerfag.

Tell us how. We do not jump for random trolls.

Limerick-fag here. I'm annoyed by the OP, but he's entitled to his own opinions.

However, if he means there are no good Irish writers, he should say so. Because Guinness is pretty damn good.

But, either way, I call this a troll thread. And you, gentlemen of colored descent, are posting in it.