tolkien
Original: tolkien on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (with short dark hair, red shirt): I can't believe you read nothing but escapist fantasy novels. What's the point?
Panel 2:
Woman (curly dark hair, round glasses): 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 error, the Escape of the Prisoner with the Flight of the Deserter."
Panel 3:
Man: That's fine, but do you really think Tolkien would be into what you're reading?
Panel 4:
Woman (holding up a book/comic titled "WotSE #7"): WAR OF THE SEX-ELVES is a profound exploration of how a war of the sex-elves would go.
Votey:
Woman (in a speech bubble): The mythopoeic revelation is that it'd be super fuckin hot!
(Below, a small panel shows erotic line-art figures, and a hand sketching/drawing them.)
Man (with short dark hair, red shirt): I can't believe you read nothing but escapist fantasy novels. What's the point?
Panel 2:
Woman (curly dark hair, round glasses): 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 error, the Escape of the Prisoner with the Flight of the Deserter."
Panel 3:
Man: That's fine, but do you really think Tolkien would be into what you're reading?
Panel 4:
Woman (holding up a book/comic titled "WotSE #7"): WAR OF THE SEX-ELVES is a profound exploration of how a war of the sex-elves would go.
Votey:
Woman (in a speech bubble): The mythopoeic revelation is that it'd be super fuckin hot!
(Below, a small panel shows erotic line-art figures, and a hand sketching/drawing them.)
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: a man in a red shirt asks a woman with curly hair and round glasses, "I can't believe you read nothing but escapist fantasy novels. What's the point?" Panel 2: the woman earnestly recites a long J.R.R. Tolkien quote defending escapism, distinguishing "the Escape of the Prisoner" from "the Flight of the Deserter." Panel 3: the man replies, "That's fine, but do you really think Tolkien would be into what you're reading?" Panel 4: the woman holds up her book, titled "WotSE #7," and declares, "War of the Sex-Elves is a profound exploration of how a war of the sex-elves would go." Votey (aftercomic): the woman adds, "The mythopoeic revelation is that it'd be super fuckin hot!" beside a small sketch of intertwined erotic figures being drawn by hand.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.