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Shakespeare and Tolkien are similar to me. If you ever say you did not like them, you have an army of defenders calling you names about your lack of education a
by wudangmonk 3y ago
Shakespeare and Tolkien are similar to me. If you ever say you did not like them, you have an army of defenders calling you names about your lack of education and literary maturity, you always get attacked for who you must be as a person. Read both, not impressed.
- SoftTalker 3y agoI don't care for either author. Tried reading The Hobbit in middle school and found it utterly boring. Shakespeare I just can't get anywhere with. The archaic language is too much of a barrier.
- themadturk 3y agoI had the opposite reaction when I was that age, but there really is no comparison between The Hobbit and LOTR. The former is a children's book, the latter just the opposite. That doesn't mean any given reader will like LOTR, of course, or that they're wrongheaded if they don't. But readers who give up on Tolkien just because they disliked The Hobbit may find they've shortchanged themselves.
- bombcar 3y agoYou can use one to deflect the other; Tolkien was so disappointed by the twist in Macbeth that he wrote the Ents.
- denton-scratch 3y agoAh, I didn't know that. "I guess you are referring to "Burnham Wood is come to Dunsinane"?
- bombcar 3y agoYep. And he also mentioned that the c-section aspect of the other prophecy felt weak, so he used a much simpler method of defeating “no man”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_influence_on_Tolkien https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_influence_on_T...
- Zanni 3y agoYou had me with you until your final two words. I'm not a fan of Lord of the Rings either, but I can't say I'm "not impressed." It's clearly a work of genius, though it doesn't appeal to me personally. And I'll defend anyone's right to dislike Shakespeare, but if you're not impressed, you're not paying attention.