You're not even trying to be witty or anything, you're just circlejerking. How does it feel literally karma whoring, like, actually just being a human who cares enough to type multiple comments for no purpose except to draw a nearby majority's attention to the fact that you agree with them?
It's sad that everything in fantasy and fiction these days is strapped to such dim-witted analogies.
“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”
Tolkien knew how that shit sucks the life out of speculative fiction.
Tolkien on allegory is a bit like Jon Stewart on being a "comic not a journalist." Sure, he wasn't blatant like his butt-buddy CS Lewis, but if Dante is an allegorist, sure JRR, with his tripartite Christ figures, is as well.
Just because you want to project your ideas of what allegory resides in Tolkiens writing on to Tolkiens motivations doesn't make its true.
There are a finite number of potential protagonist archetypes to choose from, it's not unreasonable that they align with some aspects of certain biblical characters.
The onus is on you to show that what he did meets the standards for intentional allegory. I'm not suggesting that his Christianity didn't influence his writing at all but there is a clear difference between that and suggesting he deliberately wrote the trinity into LOTR.
its absolutely fantastic criticism, sherlock sucks ass, you will never make me read this, ive watched 3 seasons of that show and know it sucks and the criticism is 100% accurate, and "bad faith" is just that petersonite thing but for a terrible show instead of lobster dad
“The army would deliver explosive bubble wrap which were wrapped around the products they ordered, and the customers would pop the bubble wrap to kill them.”
The absolute state of science fiction in <current year>
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1 SnapshillBot 2018-11-30
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1 kjmiller7 2018-11-30
Imagine being such a fucking dork that you can't watch a British nerd show without trying to shoehorn your political ideology into it
1 I_DRINK_TO_FORGET 2018-11-30
Why would you need to, they shoehorn it in for you.
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2018-11-30
Capeshit garbage
1 Thisisepicstein 2018-11-30
Tru
1 A663954512658449695 2018-11-30
British media sucks and the doctor who fanbase is almost as cancer as Steven universe
1 Starship_Litterbox_C 2018-11-30
It's right there in the name---------------------->fiction
1 uniqueguy263 2018-11-30
They're obviously trying to make some point able of Amazon tho. A very poorly thought out one because they don't want to piss off Amazon
1 Starship_Litterbox_C 2018-11-30
It's sad that everything in fantasy and fiction these days is strapped to such dim-witted analogies.
Tolkien knew how that shit sucks the life out of speculative fiction.
1 GunOfSod 2018-11-30
What we really need is a BBC adaptation of Tolkien for {{current_year}} XXL elvenkin.
1 preserved_fish 2018-11-30
Tolkien on allegory is a bit like Jon Stewart on being a "comic not a journalist." Sure, he wasn't blatant like his butt-buddy CS Lewis, but if Dante is an allegorist, sure JRR, with his tripartite Christ figures, is as well.
1 ffbtaw 2018-11-30
Just because you want to project your ideas of what allegory resides in Tolkiens writing on to Tolkiens motivations doesn't make its true.
There are a finite number of potential protagonist archetypes to choose from, it's not unreasonable that they align with some aspects of certain biblical characters.
1 preserved_fish 2018-11-30
"Tolkien is not the most Catholic man ever to live in England," said the retard.
1 ffbtaw 2018-11-30
Someone's touchy.
The onus is on you to show that what he did meets the standards for intentional allegory. I'm not suggesting that his Christianity didn't influence his writing at all but there is a clear difference between that and suggesting he deliberately wrote the trinity into LOTR.
1 memoryplays 2018-11-30
that was just a way for him to not-so-cleverly disguise his political bias as "I'm just joking! No one takes me seriously!"
1 Burnnoticelover 2018-11-30
If people can argue over what your allegory is an allegory for, you did it right. If not, you did it wrong.
1 memoryplays 2018-11-30
Right. If there's no argument it's too heavy handed
1 youcanteatbullets 2018-11-30
Yes and in the history of the world, nobody has ever used fiction as a commentary on real life
1 Starship_Litterbox_C 2018-11-30
Let's defeat the purpose of fantasy and sci fi by making everything an allegory for modern politics. Surely this will enrich the genre.
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1 VIOLENT_MONKEY_ANUS 2018-11-30
imagine actually watching doctor who in the current year
1 cochnbahls 2018-11-30
Imagine all the people, just living for today
1 cmakk1012 2018-11-30
I dream of being as stuck up my own filthy asshole as John Lennon was one day 🙏🙏🙏
1 GunOfSod 2018-11-30
Yoko?
1 cmakk1012 2018-11-30
No, I don’t scream for a living
1 JayBaumanManhole 2018-11-30
Imagine getting shot and dying like a pussy.
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1 Blinwar 2018-11-30
This is your mind after 1000 hours on Chapo.
1 dootwthesickness_II 2018-11-30
I can't even figure out what this person is saying. Like, I literally, syntactically, cannot.
1 headasplodes 2018-11-30
Wtf are they on about "bad faith" is the most lefty shit ever
1 bareballzthebitch 2018-11-30
it's over for whocels.
1 Phantom_Engineer 2018-11-30
Literally who?
1 2odastream 2018-11-30
1 Burnnoticelover 2018-11-30
“The army would deliver explosive bubble wrap which were wrapped around the products they ordered, and the customers would pop the bubble wrap to kill them.”
The absolute state of science fiction in <current year>
1 RyuunDragon 2018-11-30
Nah, just the state of Doctor Mongoloid
1 Thisisepicstein 2018-11-30
Tru
1 RyuunDragon 2018-11-30
I need to vent about the awfulness of Doctor Who, where can I go do that?
1 TomMyersComedian 2018-11-30
Faggots
1 80BAIT08 2018-11-30
Dirtbag.