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Anonymous Fri Nov 18 16:30:47 2022 No.21272711 [Reply] [Original]

There are two kinds of people. Dunefags and LotRfags.

Which one are (you) ?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 17:05:07 2022 No.21272792 >>21272711 A grown adult

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 17:06:13 2022 No.21272794 I don't like either but I gues I'm a lotrfag because I hate druggies and love trees

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 17:10:11 2022 No.21272811 >>21272711 There's more then eight types. Loves D Loves L Loves both Loves neither Never read D Never read L Never read either Never heard of either Then we get into the 'merely likes'

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 17:14:20 2022 No.21272827 Neither, I'm a BotNSfag

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 17:16:03 2022 No.21272836 File: 2.85 MB, 1800x2400, rs-18919-georgex1800-1402678578.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21272711 OP... aren't you forgetting a series of books?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 17:16:51 2022 No.21272842 >>21272711 >schlock a vs. schlock b who gives a fuck? i'm not 12 any more

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 17:18:27 2022 No.21272848 >>21272711 There are two types of virgins

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 17:18:53 2022 No.21272850 >>21272811 >Never read either This is me. I've only read The Hobbit and watched Jodorowsky's Dune and the recent Reddit Canadian man's Dune. Currently reading LotR but not sure if it will affect me (26).

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 17:24:29 2022 No.21272871 >>21272711 Dune. The sludge must flow.

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 17:33:05 2022 No.21272903
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>>21272792
Not everyone likes to spend their limited free time on book-awarded dry reads and poorly composed, redundant literature. Enjoying genre fiction doesn't make you a child, but acting superior simply because you don't partake in someone else's harmless hobby might.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 17:43:17 2022 No.21272952 >>21272711 Read both, fag for neither. >>21272827 I also like BotNS, but not gay for it either. >>21272836 It doesn't count until the fat fuck finishes it or dies first.

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 18:45:34 2022 No.21273178

>>21272711
I personally did not enjoy reading much of LOTR. I can see why it's a masterpiece and admire what it excels at, but those areas that make it a definitive work don't necessarily make it an enjoyable read for me. To be fair I think a major hindrance was that I tried to tackle them when I was too young.

I found the first 4 books of the Dune series to be fantastic as a whole, though personally I think Chapterhouse and Heretics were awful.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 21:24:31 2022 No.21273741 >>21272711 Dunefag, at least until I read LotR.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 21:27:24 2022 No.21273752 >>21272711 LoTR but I have the first Dune paperback on my shelf whenever I get around to it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 00:33:39 2022 No.21274548 >>21272903 >dry reads and poorly composed, redundant literature That's exactly what both LotR and Dune are though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 01:05:11 2022 No.21274686 >>21272711 >Which one are (you) ? A grown adult

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 02:07:09 2022 No.21274915 File: 214 KB, 960x960, Manhattan Chad.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21272711 Elric chad

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 02:10:28 2022 No.21274928 >>21272711 LOTR is so vastly superior to Dune that I can't understand how you could prefer Dune unless you read it first and it has nostalgic value to you.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 02:12:37 2022 No.21274938 >>21272711 If you put a gun to my head and told me to choose, Dune. However, without the gun to my head, I enjoy both.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 02:53:54 2022 No.21275067 File: 36 KB, 474x532, OIP.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21274915 basado

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 06:00:33 2022 No.21275636 >>21272711 I like both. There are far more than two types of people anon.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 06:01:46 2022 No.21275639 >>21272711 supraorbital artery anthropomancy Carcharodon

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 06:06:28 2022 No.21275652
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Dune. LoTR reads like a college textbook and was written by a childish pseud who hated any kind of moral nuance

And no I don't hate Catholics I love Wolfe and Chesterton, they were more mature than Tolkien and it shows in their writing

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 06:32:25 2022 No.21275731 I like Dune but I vastly prefer LOTR Tolkien crafted something very special with the LOTR and it's never been replicated before, despite all of the shallow imitators

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 06:37:24 2022 No.21275747 >>21272811 than*

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 06:47:37 2022 No.21275766
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>>21272711
Not really. SF has way way more founding fathers than Fantasy does when it comes to their legacy. It's almost impossible to pinpoint a single SF author who had as much of an impact the way Tolkien did singularly did with his writings.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 08:49:23 2022 No.21275985 File: 1.15 MB, 2480x4148, 23948092438942.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21272711 Personally, I'm a Gormenghastfag, since it's significantly better than both of those

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 09:00:25 2022 No.21276001

>>21272711
Can someone explain why dune is so big in sci-fi circles?
Of the classics it seems to me to be mediocre
I might have read it "to late" as in i read other book influenced by it and dune does not read as well because I've already read more refined "re-writes"

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 10:28:41 2022 No.21276201 >>21272711 Dune is Plagiarism LOTR is trash none of them >>21274915 >>21275067 based

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 10:56:16 2022 No.21276265 >>21272711 It's real simple. Fantasy is for traditionalists (Well adjusted chads). Sci-fi is progressive (Fringe coping betas). Everyone in between is a cuck, anyone who disagrees is wrong, and space is gay.

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 11:00:12 2022 No.21276274

>>21276265
Reminder that the creator of Star Trek was a literal commie who sperged out when the scriptwriters mentioned marriage in one of the scripts because he imagined in the future humans would have moved "beyond" such concepts. Sci-fi is degenerate garbage.

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 11:04:52 2022 No.21276281

>>21275985
Gormenghast is the most overrated fantasy series I've seen on this board. Its only selling point is that it's a "hidden gem" and is overshadowed by other series which gives it more appeal to the contrarians. Read the first book and it fucking sucked, no wonder it's not popular. Peake should have stuck to painting.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 11:05:11 2022 No.21276282 File: 37 KB, 853x625, pitMHbE.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21272711 I'm more of a New Sun kind of guy.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 11:53:55 2022 No.21276368 >>21276281 I refuse to believe that someone who actually reads novels could have such an awful opinion. Gormenghast also isn't really a hidden gem, or contrarian, since literary critics have praised it for decades

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 13:32:56 2022 No.21276617 >>21274915 this is the post

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 13:34:16 2022 No.21276622 >>21276281 >hidden gem Are you fucking retarded? It's extremely popular.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 13:36:28 2022 No.21276629 >>21272850 I'm 25 and finished reading LotR a few weeks ago and it has single handedly sparked a new love for reading on me.

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