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I started writing in my early twenties but became discouraged between rejection and a tough day job. I quit writing for eighteen years. At the age of 48 I began writing again and had my first novel published at the age of 51. 55 now and still getting novels published. I still have a day job but so what. I’m never quitting writing again!
Do you have any admiration for Tolkien? Would you even call him a writer seeing as he considered writing lord of the rings more of just a hobby for his own amusement, and spent the majority of his life as a professor/scholar/academic.
Of course, my professor who I took a ton of classes with wrote this book. Went way too deep down the Tolkien rabbit hole with him lol. www.amazon.com/Tolkiens-Lost-Chaucer-John-Bowers/dp/0198842678 I have a pretty loose definition of a "writer" though. I think anyone who writes with the purpose of being read is a writer. However, if you mean, do I think Tolkien is a literary great, probably not. "The Middle Earth Series" is really good but not enough to catapult him out of a classic fantasy author. What do you think? Very impressed with his abilities though as a part-time writer.
@@WriteConscious I never really considered him a writer, or at least definitely not a ‘working one’. What I found actually very interesting is that he never intended to put it on a market at first. It was mainly meant for his children and colleagues/Oxford university, but so many people were pushing for it to be published that there was really no way he could have said no lol I was a little surprised to hear Harold bloom compare it to Book of Mormon though. Tolkien did standardize the fantasy, every 20 21st century reader is following the footsteps of Tolkien one way or another. Would I consider him a literary great though? I lean more towards yes. Not just based on some of the superficial things that I just stated, but also because he does have scholars on his work and he incorporated so much academia in his work, especially in areas like linguistics and philosophy.
Great response Chris! I didn't know Bloom was talking crap about Tolkien lmao. Comparing it to the Book of Mormon is such a funny diss though. Will start using that when a book starts getting preachy. I agree, the philosophy and linguistics in his works dive deeper than most books do.
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🔥Want to READ my wife’s fire poetry? Go here: marigoldeclipse.substack.com
🤔My Favorite Book: amzn.to/3zPeC04
I started writing in my early twenties but became discouraged between rejection and a tough day job. I quit writing for eighteen years. At the age of 48 I began writing again and had my first novel published at the age of 51. 55 now and still getting novels published. I still have a day job but so what. I’m never quitting writing again!
Do you have any admiration for Tolkien? Would you even call him a writer seeing as he considered writing lord of the rings more of just a hobby for his own amusement, and spent the majority of his life as a professor/scholar/academic.
Of course, my professor who I took a ton of classes with wrote this book. Went way too deep down the Tolkien rabbit hole with him lol.
www.amazon.com/Tolkiens-Lost-Chaucer-John-Bowers/dp/0198842678
I have a pretty loose definition of a "writer" though. I think anyone who writes with the purpose of being read is a writer. However, if you mean, do I think Tolkien is a literary great, probably not. "The Middle Earth Series" is really good but not enough to catapult him out of a classic fantasy author. What do you think? Very impressed with his abilities though as a part-time writer.
@@WriteConscious I never really considered him a writer, or at least definitely not a ‘working one’. What I found actually very interesting is that he never intended to put it on a market at first. It was mainly meant for his children and colleagues/Oxford university, but so many people were pushing for it to be published that there was really no way he could have said no lol
I was a little surprised to hear Harold bloom compare it to Book of Mormon though. Tolkien did standardize the fantasy, every 20 21st century reader is following the footsteps of Tolkien one way or another. Would I consider him a literary great though? I lean more towards yes. Not just based on some of the superficial things that I just stated, but also because he does have scholars on his work and he incorporated so much academia in his work, especially in areas like linguistics and philosophy.
Great response Chris! I didn't know Bloom was talking crap about Tolkien lmao. Comparing it to the Book of Mormon is such a funny diss though. Will start using that when a book starts getting preachy. I agree, the philosophy and linguistics in his works dive deeper than most books do.