JRR Tolkien: Master of English Lit

Professor Tolkien was so clever. He even got the lose/loose thing right:

"Loose us! Loose us!" [Gollum] said. "The cord hurts us, yes it does, it hurts us, and we've done nothing."

See? People posting on CC should immerse themselves in old fantasy literature to improve their English skills. I do!

Samwise is a mean fat hobbitses.

i <3 treebeard

That's only because you wish to be tree like.

Almost wishes they hadn't deleted the tree girl's profile.

alas, i was absent that day, and missed her final blaze of glory.

although i may want to be a tree ent, at least i know the difference between

"loose us!"

and

"lose us!"

me haz mad spelling skillz. haha

Original Post by flamel:

See? People posting on CC should immerse themselves in old fantasy literature to improve their English skills. I do!

Indeed, they should.  And they shouldn't stop with fantasy literature, but should explore all genres.  The dumming down of today's writing (at ALL levels of publication, from newspapers to textbooks to pop fiction) is shameful.