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REAL MIDDLE EARTH
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Release dateOctober 2004
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u/berf ยท 12 pointsr/Fantasy

Yes, but you have to understand that it is very different from all of the more "modern" fantasies that have stolen from it. It is also very different from the movies. So it will be in many ways nothing like the fantasies you have read and liked. Tolkien was a scholar of ancient languages and legends. He could make up languages that were actually like real languages. In some ways LOTR is more like Beowulf than WOT or the like. LOTR is one of the world's great books. In a class with Shakespeare and Tolstoy and Goethe. A lot of people read scifi and fantasy because they don't read that stuff (me too, I'm not criticizing). So if you are going to say LOTR is too different from what I'm used to and I don't like it, then don't bother. But it is a great read if you can get into it.

I first read LOTR almost 50 years ago and it is impossible give you a sense of how different and strange it was. There was nothing like it before. Of course, every fantasy since has copied it in many ways. Even the LOTR movies are modern, a lot of special effects vaguely tied together by a plot that is less important than the special effects, and in that sense nothing at all like the books. But no later fantasy can copy the mythic structure, the languages, the peoples, all as rich as real.

Off on a tangent, and not a recommendation for the OP, the Real Middle Earth is a book LOTR (book, not movies) fans might want to read. It's about the middle ages, stuff we've all forgotten but Tolkien knew and loved.