Game of Thrones (spoilers)

[killersheep]

For me Dostoevsky, Dickens, Orwell and Burroughs are great writers. People who write about dwarves tend not to be great writers. They can concoct fun stories, but I don't regard them as great. That is why Lord of the Rings is great fun for kids. They are fun adventure books, but little more. The aforementioned writers define humanity with its highs and it's lows and offer vivid reflections of society at large. Fantasy books lack that power. You could argue that 1984 is fantasy, but really it is a massive mirror of totalitarian society. I am unlikely to ever come across a talking tree.

Did you completely miss all of the themes in the lord of the rings or are you just ignorant?

Much like game of thrones is inspired by the war of the roses LOTR was based international politics and tolkien's experience in WW2, the mechinisation of war, the decay of society, fucking geonocide to name but a few.

Edit: am I really explaining lotr to 'gandalf'?!

If you actually read the books it seems like you missed a lot.

Oh dear. Lord of the rings is mainly read by children for good reason. Yes, there are themes but there are also characters like Tom Bombadil, dwarves and goblins. That stuff is gay and as far as I am aware, pure fantasy land. If you hold that as mighty literature then good for you, but I would much rather read something like 1984 or Crime and Punishment to get my insights into character and overriding 'themes'.

'Fucking genocide'? A strange way to put it IMO. You should probably calm down. Lord of the rings is what it is. It is fun, but hardly the pinnacle of all that is great in literature.

You could go with reading a book for fun once in a while.