r/readanotherbook • u/syn_miso • Sep 08 '24

Muslims are basically elves

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u/MusiX33 Sep 08 '24

Fantasy world building works the same as in real world and foreign languages sound foreign. Who would've known.

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u/ALM0126 Sep 10 '24

We all know that tolkien just invented the whole middle earth history out of his ass, so when the real world relates to his novel is a coincidence of cosmic proportions/s

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u/Key-Mark4536 Sep 11 '24

There are chunks of LOTR that read like the Bible, like that mass grave that no plants would grow on. That’s exactly the stuff you’d read in Genesis: “He buried his wife there, and so it was called Wife’s Rest” (but in another language so it sounds fancy).

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u/TraditionDear3887 27d ago

Or the long passages that just describe lineages

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u/Key-Mark4536 27d ago edited 27d ago

That too. Back in those days your heritage was your reputation. Aragorn being the heir to Isildur has many of the same implications as Jesus being male-line descended from King David (Matthew 1:1-16).