The entire time I was reading Lord of the rings it felt like that, and then the feeling only got stronger when I started the silmarilion, bro really stole a whole history book from some alternate dimension and thought we wouldn’t notice
This meme is entirely false. Tolkien stole from the Red Book of Westmarch, not the Hobbit!
For context, this is from the foreword to the Lord of the Rings:
I have in this tale adhered more closely to the actual words and narrative of my original than in the previous selection from the Red Book, The Hobbit.
Red Book? Is Mao from Middle Earth?
It’s pronounced Mow Is Dung, so that’d track like a plow.
Plagiarism!
What’s next? The Torah is copied from Moses?
Moses is copied from Osiris, nearly word for word and wholly (heh) scene for scene. boom
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