/lit/ - Literature

>>21925263
Too busy reading the godfather of fantasy

>>17255926
>stops your plot and trivializes all of your worldbuilding
Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!
Ring a dong! hop along! Fal lal the willow!
Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!

>>14707266
look ma, i posted again

Is he the ultimate pleb filter?

*blocks your path*

Reminder that Tom Bombadil is a pleb filter.

*blocks your path*

>Maiar bow to Bombdanoff
>In contact with Ainur
>Possesses Eru-like abilities
>Taxes Gondor with an iron but fair fist
>Commands tribes and armies throughout Middle-Earth
>Direct forebear of the ancient Elendil blood line
>Will bankroll the first human cities on Valinor (Bomber's Landing will be be the first city)
>Owns 99% of Uruk-hai breeding research facilities in Middle-Earth
>First human-Valar babies will in all likelihood be Bombdanoff babies
>said to have 215+ IQ, such intelligence in Middle-Earth has only existed deep in Numenorian schools & Mordor
>Ancient Dwarven drinking songs tell of an eagle who will descend on Middle-Earth and will bring an era of enlightenment and unprecedented technological progress with them
>He owns Palantir observatories throughout Middle-Earth
>You likely have Bombdarings on you right now
>Bombdanoff is in regular communication with the creator Eru Illuvatar, forwarding the Ainulindale to his closest disciples. Who do you think set up the meeting between Isildur's heir & Gandalf (First meeting between the two) and arranged the wizard's first trip to the Shire in history only a few years earlier to the Baggins hole in Hobbiton?
>He learned fluent moonrunes in under a week
>Kingdoms and empires entrust their gold reserves with the Bomb. There's no gold in Minas Tirith, only the depths of the Old Forest
>He is about three ages old, from the space-time reference point of the base human currently accepted by our society
>In reality, he is a timeless being existing in all points of time and space from Ea to the end of Arda. We don't know his ultimate plan yet. We hope he's a benevolent being.

Can we have a thread to discuss any discrepancies/incoherent plot points that irrtate you?

Here's mine
>LoTR FoTR Frodo slashes at the witch-king's shin with a numenorean dagger
>Aragorn finds ragged cloak with the slash but claims that no blade can harm the wraith
>Frodo's sword doesn't disintegrate though, later he bradishes it at the Bruinen and the witch-king shatters it.
>Get to RoTK
>Merry stabs the Witch-King's calf
>numenorean blade apparently does horrific damage and disables the WK.
>disintegrates

mfw I'm God

Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!
Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow!
Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!

Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! My darling!
Light goes the weather-wind and the feathered starling.
Down along under Hill, shining in the sunlight,
Waiting on the doorstep for the cold starlight,
There my pretty lady is, River-woman's daughter,
Slender as the willow-wand, clearer than the water.
Old Tom Bombadil water-lilies bringing
Comes hopping home again. Can you hear him singing?
Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! and merry-o,
Goldberry, Goldberry, merry yellow berry-o!
Poor old Willow-man, you tuck your roots away!
Tom's in a hurry now. Evening will follow day.
Tom's going home home again water-lilies bringing.
Hey! come derry dol! Can you hear me singing?

Hop along, my little friends, up the Withywindle!
Tom's going on ahead candles for to kindle.
Down west sinks the Sun: soon you will be groping.
When the night-shadows fall, then the door will open,
Out of the window-panes light will twinkle yellow.
Fear no alder black! Heed no hoary willow!
Fear neither root nor bough! Tom goes on before you.
Hey now! merry dol! We'll be waiting for you!

Hey! Come derry dol! Hop along, my hearties!
Hobbits! Ponies all! We are fond of parties.
Now let the fun begin! Let us sing together!

Any other authors who have managed to construct Mythopoeia as dank as Tolkiens?

HEY DOL MERRY DOL edition

>Recommendations:
>Fantasy
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>Sci-Fi
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>What Fantasy and Sci-Fi are you reading right now?
>Who is the best demigod in /sff/?
>What are the best in-book songs and poems?

Was Tom Bombadil God?

Minor characters that you love

>I can resist the One Ring and nobody gives a shit! Zero number of fucks given!

Halfway through Fellowship and it's really, really picking up. Tom Bombadil chapters were fucking neato.

Hey guise. Question about LOTR. Never watched all the films and started to watch 2 days ago. Currently Im in the second movie but there is 1 thing that bothers me. Tom Bombadil. Now I tried to look up info about him and basicly I found out that this faggot is the stronget shit in LoTR. WTF how does a singing "who dafuq knows what" can be the strongest cunt in Tolkeins universe.

>How long does it take you to read a 300 page novel?
Depends on the amount of words on the page. I can usually polish it in about almost 2 weeks if I put in the effort. This is mainly reading in bed.
>Do you write in your books? Why?
Yes, but only the starting date and ending date of when I first read a book. Autism I guess.
>How many books do you read per month?
When I take the bus, I could pump out 5 good sized books every month. Now I don't, so it's dropped to about 2.
>What are you reading now?
Halfway through Walden, and gonna briskly read Virgil's Eclogues.

If you're reading The Hobbit and expecting Nietzsche, you will be let down.

Tolkien was a linguist and philologist. Aside from studying Germanic languages, he spend big part of his life constructing an artificial language. If you know something about linguistics, you can imagine how exciting that idea is.

I don't know much about it, but I think he started writing The Hobbit without any expectations. He wrote it because he wanted to write about the merry little fucks, dragons and orcs.

But it was a success and he was asked to write more, and that is how LOTR came to be: he seized the opportunity and used LOTR as a background to implement the languages he created.

At this point it probably became an obsession (not in a bad sense) and Silmarillion was inevitable.


Yes, The Hobbit is childish and it's not a literary masterpiece, but the complexity of the world, the mythology and the characters create a feeling of recognition. If you read Silmarillion, The Hobbit and LOTR, you will now and then stop and realize: "Wait, I know this place! This is where X happened so long ago!"

It's filled with this shit. The Hobbit is a great book for children.


Take it or leave it. There's a difference in saying "I don't like it" and "It's fucking terrible".
You're being disrespectful.