Start with the Greeks

>>8089134
First of all, coming to /lit/ for this kind of advice was a bad ideal.

Second, reading along with audiobooks will make you stupider.

Third, if you're going straight from Harry Potter to LOTR, you're not going to enjoy it. Read some contemporary adult fantasy like Terry Brooks, Pratchett, Martin or Robert Jordan before tackling Tolkien. It's not particularly difficult, just dryer but much more poetic and meaningful than shit you're used to.

You wrote two paragraphs[2[6]] to troll?[5] That's[9] what I[8] call dedication to the craft[1].

[1]the craft of trolling
[2]speaking in first person, speaking to first person in thread[3]
[5]This symbol is a question mark.
[6]I'm[7] using these number designations as notes so the reader can better understand what I'm[7] writing since I'm bad at writing and can't convey my message properly in the text itself.
[8]selfishness personified
[9]ambiguous[10]

[3]OP[4]
[7]the author
[10]read 7 types of ambiguity[11]

[4]original poster
[11]written by some promiscuous[12] degenerate

[12]Get it[13]?

[13]The joke[14]

[14]*.

>>8089134
>read the harry potter books twice
>now wants to read them again
>with audiobook playing at the same time
why don't you just go to r/books, friend? g-d bless and good luck

>>8089203
Okay DFW