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I don't know. Achilles was kind of an asshole who didn't really want anything to do with his job but it was "given to him" as his divine duty. Odysseus was kind of thrown into that whole affair and Aeneas was born into his role. Shepard literally chose this as his job.

Because everything that Tolkien did was done with scientific precision and made it completely understandable and relatable to the general public. Because Tolkien understood that people can be seduced by language. And that all he had to do was create a world and build his empire and with some...

Tolkien was aight. His control of the language was good enough that it kindled the fire of millions and millions of people. He was no Nabokov, but he did what he could with what he had. No, he's just making parallels and it's pretty stupid. I wouldn't even really call ME epic. I mean...

Hi, Long time lurker and this is my first official post. I literally joined this forum just to tell you that you're wrong. And here's the many reasons why. 1. LOTR is the most important epic written since... like... Gilgamesh. Seriously, every epic since LOTR is just people digging...