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Maybe I'm biased, but bad Silmarillion reviews are so funny to me. Just genuinely hilarious.
"It just felt like a summary."
That's the point.Β
"There was too much describing and stuff!"
Thaaaaat's the point.
"It was too exposition-y."
That's the entire literal purpose of the book.
"It just felt like the bible."
THAT'S THE POINT
*cough* okay I'm done. I just find it so funny when people read Tolkien expecting modern, action-oriented fantasy (and maybee just maaaybee it bothers my biased little self a little bit)
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And I'm NOT saying your not allowed to dislike it, or that you can't critique it. What I'm saying is, you should try to understand a piece of media in context before critiquing it. Because if the thing you find 'wrong' with it was actually intended, then it might not be bad writing, just your own misunderstanding of what it was meant to be.
(and this goes for all media too)
I feel there should be a clean line in reviewing or critiquing something, where you express whether the opinion is based on how the book made you feel, VS how good the book is from a more objective, literary analysis perspective. Unfortunately, both types of opinions are forced to exist in the same space.
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