[ SECRET POST #3861 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3861 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

For being an alleged medievalist who was aiming to write a British Isles myth, Tolkien wasn't too bothered about realistic or historically-inspired world-building.

[(Anonymous)]

He was not trying to do "world-building" in the modern, post-Tolkienate sense. And especially not "realistic" world-building. Nor would his works have been better if he had been trying to do that. They would have been worse.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really care what he was trying to do, but either way, Middle Earth doesn't follow a whole lot of logic and Tolkien was a studied medievalist.

I don't think the books would have been worse, by the way, if they included historically-sensitive crops and foods. I agree that the story isn't one that benefits from real world-building, but at the same time, fans are constantly creaming themselves over Tolkien's world-building and it's undeserved. Making up a language doesn't mean you are a master world-builder.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree that (at least in my opinion) Tolkien fans who strongly focus on world-building are missing the point themselves.

I don't think historically-sensitive crops would make one iota of difference to the quality of the crops, and any time spent caring about that would have been wasted by Tolkien. The kind of logic involved in the concept of "realistic world-building" in general doesn't have very much literary value, in my opinion.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

For being an alleged medievalist who was aiming to write a British Isles myth, Tolkien wasn't too bothered about realistic or historically-inspired world-building.

That's because he was a medievalist who staked his career on the premise that pre-modern fiction and myth was fiction and not to be interpreted literally as history, in either the modern or pre-modern sense.