Godric@lemmy.world to Lord of the memes@midwest.socialEnglish · 15 days agoDaily reminder to get your Silmarillion onmidwest.socialexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·15 days 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-up0·15 days 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