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celticrose
· 2 years ago
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Okay, for the umpteenth time, just because a book can be read to children DOESN'T MEAN IT'S A CHILDREN'S BOOK. That's like saying all of Dickens were Children's books
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kittyrawrrawr
· 2 years ago
Who's the last guy?
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celticrose
· 2 years ago
J.R.R. Tolkien. He wrote The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and other definititly NOT children's books
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xvarnah
· 2 years ago
Saying the hobbit is a children's book is like saying the silmarillion makes for a nice bit of light reading
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celticrose
· 2 years ago
EXACTLY. I honestly think a lot of people confuse him and C.S. Lewis.
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garlog
· 2 years ago
It's literally a children's book. It won a best juvenile fiction of the year award for 1938 and had a Carnegie Medal nomination.
celticrose
· 2 years ago
The Hobbit can certainly be considered far more a children's book than The Lord of the Rings, but it isn't exclusively for children, which is what is implied. It was more of an introductory book for the LotR world which he was already working on but not nearly finished with (which is why there were a number of edits made between the first and second printings). But to say "then write a children's book in it" is a vast over simplification of not only the work but the weight of the world created there, to the point of being vaguely insulting to all.
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garlog
· 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure it was meant to be humorous, not insulting.
celticrose
· 2 years ago
But its TOLKIEN.
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mrfahrenheit
· 2 years ago
Sakurai: Makes a children's game and fills it with eldritch horrors and actual genocide
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refmococ0
· 2 years ago
Not to nitpicks, but if your refer to destruction by Galeem, Darkron or Tabuu as genocide, does that mean that video game characters are a race?
refmococ0
· 2 years ago
Lovecraft: creates a new genre because none other is capable to depicting his newely created Eldritch gods
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