/lit/ - Literature

For non-native English speakers, do you tend to read fiction in your native tongue if the original language is English? especially for people here there seems to be some prestige involved in reading the author's original words whenever you can, as well as a fear of missing out on something by reading a translation. At the same time your brain hasn't created the same connections if it's not a language you grew up using daily, so for me it's not as rewarding even when I have no trouble comprehending the literal meaning of a text written in English.

pic related, I found reading various translations immensely more enjoyable even with the knowledge that some of those translations are anything but accurate

>>19540136
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Whatever you say VPN-boy, but read proper books once in a while.

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Is Tolkien's Legendarium the first truly fantastic world? By which I mean the first invented fictional universe existing completely independent of our real universe?

There's definitely some fictional universes that almost make the grade but don't.

Worlds like Neverland, Oz, and Narnia are connected to our world by some physical or magical means, and so are disqualified. So too is something like the Hyborian Age or the Cthulu mythos, as these are essentially alternate histories. Some places like Utopia or The Lost World are fictional places that exist in our reality, so they are disqualified on those grounds, while Plato's Republic is disqualified on account of being an admitted thought experiment.

I think Blake's mythology comes close, but it literally borrows from mythology, Adam and Satan for example, so it is not truly independent either.

Of course Tolkien was inspired by some European mythologies, but as far as I can tell he takes literally nothing directly from them, nor does it connect his universe directly to any mythology nor to our universe.

This has to be the comfiest book ever written.