• Drusas@kbin.run
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    4 months ago

    Controversial, but Lord of the Rings. Tolkien wrote great stories, but his writing style always seemed kind of lackluster.

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      4 months ago

      I can’t fault him for any of his depth and character building and poetry and storytelling and descriptive environments it was all very thorough and for the right person wonderful. I think the movies did a giant justice to making his work accessible. There are a lot of people out there that can’t manage to make their way through his poetry sections. And you can’t not read the poetry sections because there’s definitely content in there you need.

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      4 months ago

      I encourage you not to view him as an author but as an imaginative creator confined by language.