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Daily reminder to get your Silmarillion on (midwest.social)

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

ELI5

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Theoden was a baller.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

And Tolkien hid too much of his backstory because he was a NERD who liked dropping references readers couldn't quite get, like historians and linguists reading references with no other known sources.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

My favorite is from reading through a military analysis of the siege of Gondor, I learned that Tolkien included a reference to the Song of Roland

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