{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "the way that LOTR was written as ur-myth like \u201cwhat if the Bible and the Nibelungenlied and the Ramayana came from the same...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/184056841713/", "html": "<p>the way that LOTR was written as ur-myth like \u201cwhat if the Bible and the Nibelungenlied and the Ramayana came from the same proto-epic the way all these languages came from Proto-Indo-European?\u201d</p><p>and now it\u2019s ur-myth like you walk in to every story assuming that orcs are mean and elves like trees</p>"}