Comic #5569: tolkien

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Panel 1:

• Person 1: "I can't believe you read nothing but escapist fantasy novels. What's the point?"

Panel 2:

• Text Block: JRR Tolkien once wrote: "Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it. In using escape in this way the critics have chosen the wrong word, and, what is more, they are confusing, not always by sincere error, the Escape of the Prisoner with the Flight of the Deserter."

Panel 3:

• Person 2: "That's fine, but do you really think Tolkien would be into what you're reading?"

Panel 4:

• Person 2: "War of the Sex-Elves is a profound exploration of how a war of the sex-elves would go." (They are holding a comic titled "WoteS #7," featuring two figures that appear to represent elves.)

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