/lit/ - Literature

>creates a character that speaks entirely in archaic Anglo-Saxon style verse
>but it's entirely dialogue without being laid out as verse
>Essentially fitting poetry to prose without losing the poetic form at all
Why does nobody talk about this more?

what do you smoke, what’s your prized/favorite piece or pipe, favorite tobacco?

>Tolkien was bothered by this scene because Lewis was distorting and sentimentalizing the myth ("Narnian Exile" 41). He suggests, "[I]f Lucy had really met a faun--that is, a satyr--the result would have been a rape, not a tea party" (Christopher, C.S. Lewis 111).

Does anyone here smoke a tobaco pipe while reading?

>Green recalls that after Lewis had shared the opening chapters of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe with Tolkien, "who had disliked it intensely," Lewis then read it to Green. Shortly after, Tolkien saw Green and remarked, "I hear you've been reading Jack's [Lewis's] children's story. It really won't do, you know! I mean to say: 'Nymphs and their Ways, The Love-Life of a Faun'. Doesn't he know what he's talking about?" (qtd. in Green and Hooper 241). (1) Green provides no explanation of what Tolkien meant; however, this has not prevented critics from interpreting Tolkien's comment.

>Joe R. Christopher observes that Nymphs and their Ways is one of the books which appears on Mr. Tumnus's bookcase in Chapter II of The Lion. According to Christopher, Tolkien was bothered by this scene because Lewis was distorting and sentimentalizing the myth ("Narnian Exile" 41). He suggests, "[I]f Lucy had really met a faun--that is, a satyr--the result would have been a rape, not a tea party" (Christopher, C.S. Lewis 111). Hence, the reason Tolkien alludes to The Love-life of a Faun--a book that doesn't actually appear on Mr. Tumnus's bookcase but is absurd all the same. In short, Lewis failed to maintain the mythical archetype of fauns as lustful.

Why most people who read the works of Professor Tolkien skip the reading of Kalevala, of which Tolkien said in a letter
>(Kalevala is) “the germ of Silmarillion” (Letters, 87)

Most people on this board read gladly Beowulf and similar myths, but they have never read Kalevala, and they never will.

Why is that?

>In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit

Wow Tolkien is rly good not retard at all

>Frodo, you've truly become The Lord of the Rings.

What kind of shitty ending is this? And people consider this "high fantasy"? He was a fucken retard

>>9802009
It was actually literature that got me into pipes. When I was first getting back into literature I read Storm of Steel, Moby Dick, and Mason & Dixon back to back. All 3 books had a lot of pipe smoking and portrayed it favorably so my curiosity was piqued. Although I had never so much as smoked a cigarette I ordered a cheap briar pipe and some Escudo Navy Deluxe and fell in love with it.

It's now one of my biggest hobbies right up there with literature. If you are interested in trying it I recommend you go on SmokingPipes and order a Missouri Meerschaum corncob (they are as low as <$5) and some Frog Morton's Cellar. Pipe smoking can be a surprisingly complicated ritual and is a little intimidating at first but luckily there is a great community on Youtube and on various forums that is very welcoming to newcomers.