Yeah… but he was a professor at Leeds university at the age of 32 and started teaching in Oxford at 33.
Sorry.
Yea this is like the “Alan Rickman did his first movie at 45”. Like sure, but he was a mega accomplished stage and British TV actor for 20 years prior.
I’m 41, and you’re putting a lot of pressure on me for the next 3 years.
He didn’t finish LOTR at 45, and arguably he never finished them as he was always fiddling with some story or another.
I’d say you’re still doing quite well
He finished LotR as well as the Hobbit while he was alive.
He didn’t finish all of his other stories in the same setting before he died though.
not saying that you’re wrong, but the order of your words seem to imply that the hobbit followed lotr.
it actually was released seventeen years (and a whole second world war and more) earlier.
it was released even before we voluntarily chose to irradiate our atmosphere like dumbfucks. the hobbit came out in 1937, lotr came out in 1954.
I was responding to LotR first and just added the Hobbit to the end of the sentence because I didn’t have time to start the sentence over.
Didn’t know ‘as well as’ implied an order.
Can you really call yourself a person if you don’t write a profound fantasy novel which will influence the medium for the next century? Big L vibes if you don’t.
But seriously, while we are on the subject… I kind of thought when society would get more accepting of others, it would also become more accepting of different ideals, but that hasnt changed. While other sexual orientations, races, disabilities and the like have been accepted more than they were in history, we still seem to not be accepting of failure and small dreams. Why do we have to earn a lot of money to be successful? Why do we need to leave an impact on the world at all? Why does success even matter? Can I not just live in a small cottage in the middle of the forest doing nothing all day and have the smallest affect on the environment be enough? Why the hell do I need to strive towards writing the lord of the rings to be considered successful in the eyes of my fellow man?
I feel like if we changed our attitude towards what our goals should be and accept that not achieving anything and just living is enough, we’d all be in a better place.How about “You don’t have write a bestselling book at any age for your life to have value”?
But by that time he was a university professor… And had fought in the Great War.
Can we just have one nice moment where we think we might succeed in something please!? Just one!
If it’s anything to ya, Gaius Julius Caesar saw a statue of Alexander the Great and had an emotional breakdown – Alexander the Great had conquered “the entire world” (or, well, the world as ancient greeks understood it) in his 20s and Caesar was 30 going on 40, and he was “just” a Roman General. – He eventually did scorch his name into the annals of history, but he was over 45 when he did.
And like. We don’t need to be Julius Caesar or JRR Tolkienn. It is more than enough if by the age they became legends you have figured yourself out just enough to be living instead of surviving, especially if, unlike them, you didn’t get a head start by having rich parents. :P
