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I never understood what's to like about Hobbits
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My favorite Tolkien book is the Silmarillion, which has hardly any hobbit presence. __________________
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does that have a storyline or just an anthology?
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It has a storyline, but it's basically the mythological history of Middle Earth laid out as a big saga.
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Yeah, the Silmarillion is Tolkein's attempt to create a history and mythology for Middle Earth the way Robert E. Howard did for the Hyborian Age in his Conan books. Howard was better, though.
Well, I think Tolkien started to care about Aragorn more as his story progressed, sum1, but I still think he didn't develop the Aragorn/Arwen story very well, which is why he later wrote those appendices for them for LOTR. __________________
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No, Tolkien's Silmarillion was better. Howard was better at other things. Howard's history and mythology of the Hyborian Age was pathetic and unconvincing. His talent lay more in the area of creating vivid, emotionally charged adventures, which were brilliant in a very different way from Tolkien's work. Tolkien's Silmarillion was a genius work of creating a mythology and history for an invented setting. He perfectly adapted the style of ancient and medieval literature and brilliantly told a tale of glories and tragedies and time passing. The Silmarillion was by far his best work. It helped that it had almost no ewoks. I mean Hobbits.
Tolkien cared about Aragorn from the beginning. Aragorn represented a part of his saga that predated his invention of Hobbits. The reason he didn't "develop" Aragorn and Arwen well was because he came from a school of writing that didn't believe in developing such things. He was drawing on mediveal literary models, not modern ones. __________________
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Well, I only prefer Howard because his Hyborian age stories seemed a lot more serious and edgy, especially in the Conan comics I read. __________________
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Read the actual Howard stories. Don't just go by the comics. And Tolkien was plenty serious, though not exactly edgy.
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I agree with you about Ewoks and Hobbits.
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'what do dragons eat anyway' omg sassy Sansa!
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What do dragons eat? Well, I think that's obvious.
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Better question: What do dragons crap?
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they don't seem to eat the bones lately so not that
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What, they spit the bones out like snakes?
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