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Am I the only one who read this thinking it was truth, only to feel lied to after finding out it's fiction? Is the-toast.net doing the same thing as The Onion,
by click170 12y ago
Am I the only one who read this thinking it was truth, only to feel lied to after finding out it's fiction?
Is the-toast.net doing the same thing as The Onion, or was it just this one story?
If I was Tolkien, I'd be a bit peeved about being portrayed as a dick (lawsuit over public domain works), especially since this appears to be depicted as truth. (Maybe LoTR fans could spot that it's fiction, but I'm not at that level in the fan club yet)
- mmanfrin 12y agoThere were a lot of flags. Maybe you didn't read it carefully? Tolkien refers to Quendi people as “elves,” a common term in his time, but considered highly offensive today. or When I entered the Hobbit Studies program at the University of Chicago in 2003, I wasn’t planning to write my own translation. Like most of my peers, I was content to lead a quiet scholarly life, writing my dissertation on Adûni phonology and having friendly debates over second brunch about whether or not Balrogs have wings Or the changing of the college the author wants to work at from Franciscan to Jesuit. or referring to Pippin’s brain as “blunter than an orc’s dick,” gone is the Fellowship’s graphic struggle with dysentery in the Mines of Moria. There were a lot of signs.
- w4tson 12y agoYeah I missed the signs. I'm still perplexed by the the whole thing
- A1kmm 12y agoIt was pretty obvious fiction, and I assumed it was satire, but I still can't work out what exactly it was satirising. It has the feel of being a satirical allegory of something; a ridiculous premise and lots of details about it.