/lit/ - Literature

>>11874093
Unironically Harry Potter.

I've liked a lot of books since but I haven't truly grown attached to characters, angry when they died or suffered, or joyful with them as they succeeded. I grew into a sad, bitter adult.

>>11866636
It will be ruined by waifus and shilling anyway. What difference will it make?

>>11772232
Tolkien was highly educated, extremely intelligent, had his spirit challenged in one of the bloodiest wars in the history of the world, knew to take his sweet time with the material he had, and genuinely loved his creations and started them from myths and legends and languages.

Very few fantasy authors today - if any at all - possess even ONE of these qualities, let alone more than one, let alone all of them. A man like Tolkien will never rise again. We'll never again read anything new quite like his works.

>>11752499
It's what I'm doing right now. I didn't even realize until well into writing both of them.

>>11737407
>tfw Tolkien never got to finish up his greatest work on his own, and now his legacy has been sold as a yet another moneymaking scheme to sate the endless corporate greed, to be gangraped by a legion of hack authors