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i know its written the people(mortals) who are allowed to go to the undying lands still die and maybe even at a accelerated rate as the lands are ''too potent'' ''like a moth in a light to strong and steadfast'' but i believe(and its just my opinion so chill) Eru would have given the guys as long as they felt like they needed/wanted before they'd eventually felt ready and to pass on.

I finally finished Children of Húrin today. I started after reading maybe a third of the Silmarillion and struggling to stick to it. I remembered that if the reading guide said Children of Húrin was best if that ended up being the case. I knew going in, based on how everyone here talked about it, that Children of Húrin was a tragic story, but my goodness. This was just gut punch after gut punch of tragedy for Túrin. Don't get me wrong, a good portion of it is of his own making, but damn if it isn't tragic to watch.

Even with all the warnings I saw, I still don't think I was prepared for how constant the torture was for our protagonists. Any time they'd get a small win, there was either a price that it came at or was quickly irrelevant because of a new tragedy.

I loved the book, but it took me forever to read because it was just such a bummer! Only complaints I really have is the... incesty... bits at the end. Felt a little much honestly idk. The other small quibble I had is that it feels quite apparent that this was unfinished in the way it's written. Doesn't quite have the same flow as the LOTR books. I don't know how much of that is Christopher though.

TLDR: Great book... ew incest.

Hello everyone, I just finished watching fellowship of the ring for the first time and I cannot believe how amazing it was. I am just so happy after watching this I just had to come here to join this sub and share my excitement 😭I am someone who loves the medieval fantasy genre in video games, books and basically every medium of entertainment but somehow never read or watched lotr before. Somehow all 24 years of my life I never found it appealing enough to start but I’m so glad I just did.

I hope no one takes offence to this comparison but it’s very rare I’ve been so impacted emotionally by a piece of fiction and the only other I can recall is the manga/anime one piece. I’ve chased the feeling of watching one piece ever since and after all these years this movie gave me just that. I am absolutely in love and I thought I had seen it all but this movie feels like I’ve discovered the fantasy genre all over again.

The movie itself was just mind blowing the quality of the sets the cgi, the sound the acting it was just so amazing.

I am just so happy I gave this a chance and I’m about to start the 2nd movie but just had to share how much this impacted me.