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Tenorius OP t1_itfurn6 wrote

Reply to comment by Greenery72 in I just read The Silmarilion and I am speechless. by Tenorius

I think i will pause any fantasy readings for a while... as a fan of the genre i feel like any fantasy story will pale when compared to tolkiens world.

My goal now is to read some classics like all quiet on western front and get a sense of what tolkien experienced in the WW1

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scottostanek t1_itgjvvu wrote

If you want to go non fantasy but still interested in Tolkien’s work ( and C. S. Lewis as well) dig up a copy of The Inklings, which goes into detail of those two and few more as professors exchanging letters about their works while at Oxford. It explained how those times going into Mordor equated with Tolkien’s experiences in trenches : sword of the Westerness = American rifle, elven cloak= trench coat, dwarven mail = British uniform, and he was from Lancanshire. Did a report on it in Highschool and it stuck with me.

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