Yes, I've noticed that. Cob afficionados & aromatic smokers likewise. Lacking a sense of humour is also a trait.
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Exactly. I get a bit tense at the terms "overrated" and "overhyped" used in terms of literary criticism. It's more of a personal bias than a criticism. But having it as your opinion is perfectly fine.
Perhaps the best speech in history.
For the record, I am not a Tolkien fan. I find his writings to be too tedious and overdrawn for my patience. I also prefer stories that don't require a ton of back knowledge to know what is going on with the plot.
It was written for a different time and era. I enjoy the descriptions and history from a historical standpoint. Today authors need not write in such descriptive ways as our imaginations have "evolved" since then. Reason I dislike George R. R. Martin.
I can see that ... its not for everyone. But the stories can be read without the background knowledge on their own merit. As pointed out previously, the impressive nature of the work is that he started out with a language; then wrote stories to illustrate the development of the language; then created a world and history to give the stories context ... the sheer immensity of it is amazing and he was one for the first to do it ... and all to tell his kids stories to convey deeper truths in life. So all in all ... a feat of genius.
I agree that Tolkien was indeed a genius. I also agree that he was a talented story teller.
It's not directly related but I would like to see a movie made of The Long Walk
There were so many other writers from that exact same era that were nowhere near as verbose as Tolkien. Hemingway’s first novel for example came out almost 10 years before The Hobbit. His prose is obviously much more lean and concise than Tolkien’s.
I love Tolkien’s world that he created but his writing style isn’t my favorite. His books don’t exactly feel like page turners for much of the time.
Hemingway was a great short story writer but his novels are lackluster. Tolkien invented the genre of high fantasy.
I wasn’t praising or criticizing Hemingway, I was simply using him as an example to make a point.
There were concise writers then just like there are today. There were verbose writers then just like their are today. Even when compared to his contemporaries, Tolkien was exceptionally longwinded.
And George Lucas probably cries at night over what Disney has done to his franchise, but dries his tears with crisp Benjamins.
I wonder how many writers of yore are turning over in their graves because of all of the horrendous cash grab spinoffs of their works.
I promise I know the difference between there and their
It’s incredibly ironic that autocorrect threw me to the wolves in a thread about an author that was a professor at Oxford.
Nah, you criticized Tolkien so you don't get the benefit of the doubt, unbeliever.I promise I know the difference between there and their
It’s incredibly ironic that autocorrect threw me to the wolves in a thread about an author that was a professor at Oxford.
I know… I’m banished from the forum now.
Lord Tolkien, inventor of the pipe itself, has henceforth cursed my username.
The dispute about the pluar of dwarves/dwarfs and elves/elfs from the man who helped write the Oxford dictionary (with the letter W) is humorous.I promise I know the difference between there and their
It’s incredibly ironic that autocorrect threw me to the wolves in a thread about an author that was a professor at Oxford.
You remind a lot of a Bulldog that I've met before. He wasn't a professor though. He was a trauma surgeon, and a poor farm boy working on a paving crew, and a couple of other things.
I got the same vibe, but was just gonna watch the show
Poof! I'm now an eggplant 
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