Godric@lemmy.world to Lord of the memes@midwest.socialEnglish · 2 months agoDaily reminder to get your Silmarillion onmidwest.socialexternal-linkmessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up1130arrow-down11
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minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·2 months agoAnd 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.
minus-squaresteventhedev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 months agoMy 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
Theoden was a baller.
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.
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