[ SECRET POST #1575 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1575 ⌋


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


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TRIGGER WARNING FOR SEXUAL/EMOTIONAL ABUSE

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TRIGGER WARNING FOR INCEST, RAPE

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Comments

[meadowphoenix]

Well, I would say that. It's less likely for people to keep buying books in a series as time goes on. Frankly, despite Tolkien desiring that it be one novel, it's published as a series of 3 novels that you get at one time. It wasn't the movies which popularized that frankly.

I don't think what I'm saying is contradictory so much as you're conflating what I'm saying. I said you can trust the criticisms of pop culture better, not popularity in general. They tend to be more blunt about what doesn't work in something than reasonable about what is great about something.

I don't think Tolkien is a bad writer. I actually think The Hobbit is brilliantly written, but also very different from LOTR, and frankly how he wrote there was more suited to prose. What I'm saying more that there are poetic concepts that do not work in prose. And that sometimes his need to work it all in stagnates the plot. If his goal was to be successful, then yes he succeeded. If his goal was to reform epic poetry into prose, I give it a C.