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>>22268419
No.

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>>22193850
>tfw living at the end of history
I'm so fucking bored holy shit

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>>12599493
One thing I've noticed as I'm rereading The Lord of the Rings is how incredibly sad some parts of it are. We're repeatedly presented with all this neat stuff, but it's basically almost about to be extinguished from the world. The Elves are about to leave Middle-Earth forever. The Ents are nearly gone and can't reproduce. Moria is a ruin. Osgiliath is rubble. Gondor has nearly completely collapsed.

The victory of the forces of the West fixes some things, but not other things, so the ending is very bittersweet and tinged with sadness. This is so utterly, drastically different from most of the fantasy authors that Tolkien has inspired. How often does anything Brandon Sanderson writes have a sense of sadness and loss to it? All these fantasy worlds that are built off of Tolkien's inspiration are worlds in their prime, with no sense of loss or weight of despair to them. That's one of the biggest differences between Tolkien and his imitators to me.

I mean, pic related. Take it from the man himself.

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