[ SECRET POST #1941 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1941 ⌋

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

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[Carnivale]


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[Cabin Pressure]


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[Fallout New Vegas]


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[My Neighbor Totoro]


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[Kuroshitsuji]


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[The Devin Townsend Project]


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[Glee]


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[Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 022 secrets from Secret Submission Post #277.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, so, the way I understand it, Tolkien wrote The Hobbit for his own children. It caught someone’s attention and then became really popular. They wanted a sequel and since he had all of this backstory that he built up, he wrote The Lord of the Rings. Given that and his background (his focus on linguistics, working for the Oxford English Dictionary, training to be a codebreaker), it seems almost inevitable that the series would include a lot of exposition, an almost obsessive amount of detail, and some fairly dense language, which just isn’t conducive to an easy read.

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

Yeha, basically. Additionally, he's said that the story basically grew with his children. The Hobbit was written when they were kids. Lord of the Rings was for them as well, but they were adults now, and so the plot was correspondingly heavier and the prose heavier.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

And The Silmarillion was the compilation of all JRR's background notes and stories, compiled by his son and a helpful writer friend.