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phasestep t1_itfcbxb wrote

Reply to comment by sweetspringchild in I just read The Silmarilion and I am speechless. by Tenorius

It's like reading the Bible if you had zero cultural or historical context. Like we picked an alien off another planet, taught them our alphabet and then gave them this book and said "it's a really good read!"

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pierzstyx t1_itfg2pv wrote

Really, it's almost nothing like reading the Bible. It is more like if someone handed you a book of Greek myths and told you to read it.

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phasestep t1_itfg9o5 wrote

The closest I've come is reading Indian mythology. I don't know the names or places and some of the ideas are totally foreign. And that's with me already having a vague idea of India and it's people. You don't even have that with Tolkien

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