I'm sorry /book/...

...I really am, but I don't really like Tolkien. I mean, I appreciate all the effort put in, but reading LotR, all I see is awkward sentences, bad grammar, and un-interesting/repetitive plotlines.

SHOW ME HOW TO LOVE, /BOOK/.

You're not the only one.
I know he started the whole genre, but I just can't get myself to like it.

>>1
>>2
this is what retarded losers are indoctrinated to think

>>1
Well, he's the absolutely unique on the fantasy scene. Nobody every did anything like that, ever. Not even attempted to do anything like that, in fact. Some think they're "creating fantasy worlds, too", but they have no clue what they're tlaking about.

But as a writer - of both prose and poetry - he was pretty darn awful.

Why didn't the giant birds just fly them to Mordor?

>>5
That's kinda like asking why didn't Belgium fly our nukes to Japan for us? The eagles had their own politics about the war. And despite how the movie portrayed it, they were not super buddy buddy with Gandalf. That was more of Radagast's thing (furry wizard). Besides even if they had agreed to it you're high if you don't think Mordor would be fully fortified with archers, not to mention the distant they would have to fly with the fellowship and their gear WHILE being attacked by Nazgul the whole way.

At least that's how I've always seen it.

Don't worry OP, Tolkien sucks.
Read Michael Moorcocks essay 'Epic Pooh'.

Tolkien? A ragtag bunch of misfits goes to defeat someone who's evil for the sake of being evil. I've played video games with better prose, characters and plot.

>>3

People are indoctrinated into thinking that Tolkien was a good writer because their elementary school teacher says so when putting it on some required-reading-list.

ITT: we hate on popular things to show how cool and individual we are.

>>9

Tolkien isn't popular.

>>10
Tolkien is the only straight-up fantasy writer that most people have even heard of. The only one that gets read by people who aren't colossal nerds.

>>11

Harry Potter?

>>12
That's a children's book.

>>13
So? Michael Ende's Momo is written as a children's book, but it is obviously more.

I've always preferred Robert E. Howard myself.

>>13
Adults read and enjoy it too, sadly.

>>14
Oh hey, that's the author of The Neverending Story. I saw that on the Disney Channel once

I like Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series myself.

I think the only book of Tolkins I liked was The Hobbit.

>>18
You are retarded

>>18
everyone likes The Hobbit better, because it's a children's book.

However, if you want to discuss Tolkien, you should start with The Silmarillion, because that's where you find out why Melkor (who was actually Sauron's old boss) is a dick, and subsequently why Sauron is a dick, and why the elves are leaving, and what's up with that goddamn tree.

Tolkien was a philologist. If you actually read The Silmarillion, you'll probably have trouble with the names (also because things often have more than one name that is used interchangeably) but then you realize that all those names mean something, and are not just semirandom collections of letters. To be fair, LotR and even The Hobbit make a lot more sense if you know the history of Middle Earth.

(I didn't like LotR either.)