>>24840399
I think this is kind of true and why I can't get into most fantasy, including ASOIAF. I love LOTR, but LOTR is simply a different sort of story with different ambitions.

What I always remember about my reads through The Lord Of The Rings is how incredibly full of sadness certain sections are. Like when Frodo laments the Elves going away, or when Galadriel sings as the Fellowship is leaving Lothlorien. Or when Theoden remarks on how much seems on the verge of being totally lost. Or the section at the end of ROTK when Elrond, Gandalf, Celeborn, and Galadriel talk long into the night, and the text remarks that they might be statues made of stone, or shadows of smoke.

This incredible sense of how beautiful everything is, and how much is about to be lost, never to be regained, is extremely strong in LOTR and I basically don't find it in any other fantasy. I certainly don't find it in ASOIAF. I don't find any deep beauty, or deep melancholy, in Martin, compared to Tolkien.

There are no songs in ASOIAF, either, no real ones. There is no poetry, only prose. There's no elevation to a higher mode of linguistic expression in Martin's work.

It's amazing how she showed up just in time in history to be cast as Galadriel. She's perfect for the role. Beyond perfect, it's like she IS Galadriel. Even her voice perfectly matches Tolkien's description of Galadriel's voice in the books.

Fuck you guys

I am going to waifu NICE elves like Galadriel. She will not be a bitch to me like anime elves are.

>>279628163
And yet no Jap elf is half the waifu Galadriel is. Tolkien hard-carries Western elves but his best ones are unbeatable.