Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Elves, Dwarves, Evil, Fear
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
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Epic, richly built, meticulous and resolved.
1 profiled raters. Loved most by The Ironists.
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On Open Library, 618 have read it and 1,753 want to.
“THIS BOOK is largely concerned with Hobbits, and from its pages a reader may discover much of their character and a little of their history.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide. In the
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Taste Buds. Other media included when they land close.
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“Is The Fellowship of the Ring better than The Hobbit?”
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“Is the world more interesting than the story?”
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“Is it too big for its own story?”
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If you loved this book, the film, the television, the music, the game.
