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Something Tookish (Personal Essay about The Hobbit) (forrestsellsout.substack.com)

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Personal essay about overcoming fear and excuses, inspired by The Hobbit.

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[–] Gn0slis@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Just read this book two days ago. Started Fellowship yesterday morning ♥️

[–] nova_dragon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

nice, what did you think of it?

Tolkien's descriptions of settings and flow w/ action sequences really make the book fly by. although, i thought the ending was a bit rushed—with the death of Smaug being somewhat disappointing, and the little war at the end was more of a whimper than a bang.

otherwise, brilliant little book, it felt like going on a DnD campaign or something—and rightly so, considering it sort of inspired all that.