/lit/ - Literature

>>20357914
>Gormenghast
>Fantasy

>>9104427
Tolkien
>Combat veteran of WWI who saw some of the fiercest, bloodiest, most lethal warfare even unleashed in human history
Martin
>Conscientious objector
Tolkien
>One of the greatest scholars of language in history, he was famous as a professor and scholar before he was published he was the chair of English at the most prestigious university on earth where he stood out amongst other giants.
Martin
>Couldn't feed himself as a writer, so a friend got him a low-end teaching job at a rinky-dink college no one has heard of for 2 years and quit
Tolkien
>Wrote the most popular, influential fiction of the 20th Century as a pastime, a hobby, generating a tremendous impact on literature, music, and film
Martin
>A professional writer for his entire life before he wrote 'a soap opera with swords' that is popular because it has tits in it was most famous for editing books of short stories written by other people about a super-hero roleplaying game he ran 30 years ago
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Who the fuck cares what Martin thinks of Tolkien? It is like asking a shoeshine boy his opinion of the Crimean War