The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Parmandur]

I can completely understand people not finishing the LotR (although I never imagined my 5th grade class that seemed to all be reading it on our own was precocious. I will always remember how crushed one was when

Spoiler: hidden for those who might yet read it someday ;-)

Boromir

died).

The Silmarillion is one of my all time favorite books though. (My paperback fell apart from re-reading long ago. My second hardback copy was still in good shape, but I've replaced it with the new illustrated edition).

I wouldn't argue it is great literature anymore than I would argue either pot roast or my grandma's chocolate chip cookies were high cuisine. But if forced to be on a desert island, I think I'd take favorite comfort food over high cuisine any day. Although I'm guessing we'd all have very different choices of favorite comfort food. Just like we would for books. It feels like similar things could be said of movies and songs.

I think after nigh 70 years, Fellowship of the Ring spoilers are probably safe.

I know a number of ways to measure "great literature" and by any attempt at metric I can think of Tolkien's work qualifies as "Great Literature."

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I think after nigh 70 years, Fellowship of the Ring spoilers are probably safe.

 

[Parmandur]

Spoilers: olive, mushroom and anchovy pizza is delicious.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Spoilers: olive, mushroom and anchovy pizza is delicious.

Add some garlic to that, and you can call it the, "I don't want to kiss my date" special.

 

[payn]

 

[Parmandur]

Add some garlic to that, and you can call it the, "I don't want to kiss my date" special.

Who cares about that when culinary perfection is at hand?

 

[RealAlHazred]

Tolkien is for people that think they love literature, but can't be bothered to read real books.


.....I'll see myself out now.

Real Literature:

 

[Gradine]

Yeah if we find ourselves in a situation where we have to debate the definition of "great literature" we've already lost.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Real Literature:

Pounded in the Brain by Hasbro's Refusal to Name their Next D&D Product After a Dinosaur

 

[RealAlHazred]

Yeah if we find ourselves in a situation where we have to debate the definition of "great literature" we've already lost.

How can this description not come from a book that qualifies as "great literature"?

Senator Porp Gringle is a hardline conservative who delights in making the world a difficult place for those who disagree with his hateful politics. He’s a powerful figure, and today he plans to wield this power by stopping the Unicare Reform Bill—a legislation designed help unicorns with broken horns—from passing. Senator Gringle’s speech is interrupted, however, and with a newly free afternoon he decides to wander the National Mall.

It’s here that Porp stumbles upon a protest in the form of a musical performance from one of his favorite bands, Anger Against The System. Senator Gringle rocks out a bit, until discovering that he is the target of these protests and the musician’s he grew up on have nothing but distain for his hateful ways.

Now Porp and the physically manifested realization that the protest music he grew up on does not actually support his current hateful ideology are diving deep into what it means to be a rebel, culminating in a hardcore gay encounter that will change Porp Gringle forever.

This erotic tale is 4,300 words of sizzling human on gay living concept action, including anal, blowjobs, cream pies, rough sex, and the handsome sentient realization of artistic misinterpretation.