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What to Read Next? - This Immortal or Lord of the Rings
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<p>[QUOTE="Battousai, post: 13382, member: 103"]</p><p>LoTR is a great read when you look back at it, since I read it in high school for the first time. However as good as the main story is it is incredibly bloated in some sections with Tolkien's poems and songs that he loved composing and using his mastery of language as the philologist he was by trade. I mean I went to check, the complete story has 61 poems overall and the first book has 22 of those lol, a few are indeed very well known like "The Road Goes Ever On and On" but the rest of it feels just like filler that Tolkien inserted because he wanted to publish his poetry and you have to get over a wall of text to get back to the main plot.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Battousai, post: 13382, member: 103"] LoTR is a great read when you look back at it, since I read it in high school for the first time. However as good as the main story is it is incredibly bloated in some sections with Tolkien's poems and songs that he loved composing and using his mastery of language as the philologist he was by trade. I mean I went to check, the complete story has 61 poems overall and the first book has 22 of those lol, a few are indeed very well known like "The Road Goes Ever On and On" but the rest of it feels just like filler that Tolkien inserted because he wanted to publish his poetry and you have to get over a wall of text to get back to the main plot. [/QUOTE]
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