[ SECRET POST #3234 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3234 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.
[Golden Girls]


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02.
[Boku no Hero Academia]


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03.
[C.S. Lewis vs. J.R.R. Tolkien]


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04.
[Pokémon, Leah Remini]


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05.
[Tales of Zestiria]


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06.
[The Man In The High Castle]


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07.
[Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda, Monstress]


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08.
[Sleepy Hollow]








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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I hated Tolkein's writing and did find it very dry. I couldn't make it through the series any of the times I tried to do so. I don't think C.S. Lewis would fare very well there either, however. I think it is too much of a radical departure for him. I would love to see a different, more expressive and character-driven writer do a take on the Fellowship, but I doubt anyone ever would as it is considered pretty sacrosanct.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have an opinion on C.S. Lewis as it's been too long since I've read his work, but I did read Tolkien much more recently and I also found it dry. In the text, it seemed he lavished a lot of attention on the world, the languages, and the landscape, but the characters' personalities were filled in only on a peripheral level, with the exception of the hobbits.

As some commentators above have pointed out, that may have been a stylistic choice. However, from my reading perspective, it made them really hard to relate to. One of the reasons why I preferred the films, where all of a sudden, all of those characters felt like real people. In the book, they just don't do that for me.

Obviously others have different takes on it, but I have to agree with your last sentence about seeing how it would have been different with a "more expressive and character-driver writer".

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

As some commentators above have pointed out, that may have been a stylistic choice. However, from my reading perspective, it made them really hard to relate to. One of the reasons why I preferred the films, where all of a sudden, all of those characters felt like real people. In the book, they just don't do that for me.
Yes, this. So much this. I'm not saying his writing style is bad or wrong. It just really isn't for me. I need characters to care about (either to hate and want to have their comeuppance or to love and want to see them win, preferably both), and I didn't really get that at all in Tolkien's work.

I also had the added "benefit" of being someone who doesn't translate words into images well. So excruciatingly long sections of just description don't do anything for me. It's why I prefer character-driven stories to world-building stories.

And, yeah, I think the OP's general sentiment of another writer doing a different take on the worlds would be really interesting. But I don't expect it to ever happen and will just content myself with enjoying the films and leaving the books to gather dust on my shelf.