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OftenBen · 2213 days ago · link · · parent · post: Did someone say 'bookthread?' I think someone said 'bookthread.' So what have you all been reading lately?
I'm thankful I read the Silmarillion, I didn't particularly enjoy the process. I hear that this is common.
Got a little frisson reading Winter of the World because the Partisan slogan of the Spanish Civil War was "They Shall Not Pass." I've always found LoTR to be entirely too trivial, and Tolkien insisted it wasn't an allegory for squat... but once you've been dragged through a dramatization of the European Theater from 1907 to 1937 you begin to wonder.
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