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14747299 No.14747299 [Reply] [Original]

>just finished the hobbit
>about to start the lord of the rings
i'm going on an adventure bros

>> No.14747317

>not starting with the silmarillion

>> No.14747322

>>14747299
Enjoy the journey fren!

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14747339

Enjoy OP

I always try to transport myself back to pre-2000s days of LOTR fancying, when everything was simpler and less "cinematic," the art and fan art was more grounded but somehow also more evocative of a real fantasy world. I can still remember being 10 years old and reading the Hobbit, the feeling that it was completely real but also completely fantastic at the same time somehow.

Now when I try to think LOTR, my mind reflexively goes to overproduced Hollywood crap, 2000s "gritty fantasy" etc. But back then everything sounded like the midi soundtrack of a mid-90s fantasy game and felt like the wood-paneled basement of a bunch of nerds playing D&D, in a world where no normie yet knew what D&D was and couldn't ruin it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwGI7PZyv48&list=PLXJ-GMrdLB_LYLEYK9wGJxnVbBK6LhXB9&index=3

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14747368

so, you are basically saying lotr is the pokemon of literature?

why do our minds need fake stories to be stable? we are weak and fragile creatures.

anyway, enjoy your ride op.

>> No.14747376

good luk fren
beware of greks baring gifts