[ SECRET POST #1959 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1959 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 085 secrets from Secret Submission Post #280.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - 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

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

What is with this run of LOTR is boring/I didn't like LOTR secrets? Tolkien's writing drags. It's mundane. It's hard to get into. This is pretty much accepted. His strengths were world-building and plotting. And yeah, it's predictable. Partly because he was drawing on mythology, and mostly because so many people have copied him since.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

To be fair, it took me three tries to read all of LotR. I kept getting stuck in Bree. (Mind you, I've read it all several times since then!) And I'm not sure the OP read beyond Fellowship, looking at the secret.

But I don't think Tolkien's writing is mundane or draggy at all. It's third person omniscient, which a lot of people aren't used to anymore, and he throws in poetry now and then, but it's very readable. I got stuck in Bree because it felt like I'd had my adventure with the wraiths and I was done now.

The writing in Twilight, on the other hand, was excruciating, at least for the forty pages I gave it as a try.

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

It's probably more accurate to say the storytelling bogged down and dragged for me. His wordcraft is fine; the story itself is fine; but the book(s) as a whole reaaaaaally tried my attention span more than a few times.

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's weird to see like half a dozen secrets in a relatively short period of time (a couple of months) that all basically say the same thing, including "I'm gonna get crucified for this opinion but...", even though the comment sections are always sympathetic overall. I even somewhat agree (though I've never made an honest effort to read LotR, and I was too young for Fellowship when I was forced to read it for school) but I find it odd when people post to F_S without taking note of the secret and commenting patterns.