Love that.
I love LoTR too. I would never feel the need to pick one OR the other. It’s not about WHICH. Much better to love BOTH. AND is the correct operator to place between these two great sets of works.
I think an under appreciated subset of Discworld is the Tiffany Aching series. If you really want to see Pratchett’s notions of “good morality” on display, these model it the best IMO.
Yeah, the author indicates he skipped them, probably because of the YA moniker, but honestly, _maybe_ Wee Free Men exempted, they're equally as mature as any other discworld books, with really the only YA thing about them being their underage protagonist.
Depends where. Getting serious about Discworld would make you think thinking something makes it real. Which is a different set of crazy.
> The Lord of the Rings on the other hand — the more seriously you take Middle Earth, the dumber you get about Roundworld.
> ...
> The thought I began with, that The Lord of the Rings, whatever its merits as a fantasy tale, is brain-rot for the technological mind, is one that I find so obvious it feels barely worth stating.
It's honestly hard to read the piece because of how clearly visible the author's sneer towards those who love Tolkien is.