What would Tolkien think of American Tolkien?

What would Tolkien think of American Tolkien?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    He didn’t care for Dune much. Didn’t understand it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      He'd rank it above Dune, below Dunsany and Eddison.

      He understood Dune. It didn't have good worldbuilding.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Tolkien would like Grrm

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          He'd appreciate certain things like the genealogies, the history, the map, and the mysteries, etc.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Doubtful.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            So you haven’t read Tolkien.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      He would despise it since it goes against everything he believed in. This anon
      makes a good point with Dune, it's the complete opposite of Tolkien's world.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Except he liked plenty of fantasy and scifi that went against his philosophies. Voyage to Arcturus, Asimov's Foundation, Eddison, and Dunsany.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      He understood it quite well, being one of the foremost professors of his time. What he disliked what was the allegory, the militant themes, the creating a God-Head, the crushing political philosophy and more.

      Tolkien would hate GRRM, being a fat, childless lump of israeli flesh that makes a mockery of everything Tolkien would stand for.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >What he disliked what was the allegory
        Never cared for his distaste for allegories
        >israeli
        Tolkien didn't hate israelites.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        And whats so wrong with Paul’s political philosophy compared to Aragorn’s?

        Dislike. Not good enough worldbuilding.

        Just because you like the world building best, doesn’t mean he’d base all on that narrow category

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >the creating a God-Head
        Herbert never did this, it's literally a fricking plot point. Tolkien did however, with all of his Eru bullshit.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Would’ve Vance liked LOTR? I’m pretty sure he’s read it at one point.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I don't see how someone with Vance's imagination and economy of writing would be impressed by LOTR.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Brandon Sanderson?

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    ERB already told us.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    you already know:

    "I did begin a story set about 100 years after the Downfall [of Sauron], but it proved both sinister and depressing. Since we are dealing with Men it is inevitable that we should be concerned with the most regrettable feature of their nature: their quick satiety with good. So that the people of Gondor in times of peace, justice, and prosperity would become discontented and restless – while the dynasts descended form Aragorn would become just kings and governors – like Denethor or worse. I found that even so early there was an outcrop of revolutionary plots, about a centre of secret Satanistic religion; while Gondorian boys were playing at being Orcs and going around doing damage. I could have written a ‘thriller’ about the plot and its discovery and overthrow – but it would be just that. Not worth doing.”
    - J.R.R. Tolkien, on why he didn't write a Song of Ice and Fire

  5. 2 years ago
    Sage

    I don't think he would like AOIAF at all. It's fairly antithetical to everything Tolkien was going for in his work

  6. 2 years ago
    One

    ASOIAF is like an inferior Dune in a fantasy setting akin to LotR.

    It's a peak American bugman creation and so obviously Tolkien would dislike it. I feel like while disliking, he still respected Dune. He wouldn't respect ASOIAF

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What would he think of his British successors like Moorwiener and Rowling?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Dislike. Not good enough worldbuilding.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    He'd be like, "What's that stench?"

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    A catholic with slave morality would not appreciate George's master morality work.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Do you guys have nothing better to do than to project this meme for 4 days in a row? I’ve seen already to threads of this bullshit. Your not exactly affirming your life here in IQfy either.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Like asking what would Walt Disney think of nu-troony-Disney. They don't even call him Buzz Lightyear anymore, he has a troony name, they are using him to market plant-based meat now instead of Pizza Planet that had the PizzaBurger. Buzz was friends with Woody. Now he's just troonyyear.
    Walt Disney historically created propaganda against Hitler in World War I and II. You would think that by taking ownership of nu-Disney that it would fill them with madness just at the thought of it.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Lots of people here haven’t read Tolkien.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I don’t believe he read any Wolfe.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I wonder what Tolkien would have thought of BOTNS

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    He’d probably be deeply disgusted

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >What an ugly fat ass.

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