[ 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

[kryss-labryn.livejournal.com]

LOTR is predictable because it's THE fantasy book that has been copied and continues to be copied ad infinitum. You might as well call it the one book that made fantasy literature into what it is today.

This.

And, yeah, it really does take a while to get going. I heard an interview with a publisher on the CBC a few years ago who said that the books would never have been published today (at least, not without heavy editing/rewrites) because of how much the opening, especially, lags. As she pointed out, it's something like 40 pages before the first word of actual dialogue! And the trend these days is rather more to jump straight into an action scene to grab the reader right off.

Having said that, though, it's still one of my favourite works, and The Ride of the Rohirrim, the last page or so of that chapter, when the Rohirrim go charging across the battlefield... *Happy sigh* I find that pretty much the single most stirring, evocative, and moving pieces of literature EVER. SO amazing. :D

OP, if you're having that hard of a time with it but do want to give it the old college try, perhaps skip ahead to the, oh, I was gonna say to The Council of Elrond, once they've arrived in Rivendell, but honestly, it's not really until the Mines of Moria that things get bad-ass. It won't be the same without the build-up, but there honestly is a fair bit of wandering about the wilderness wondering if those distant crows are spies for the enemy and oh look more bare rock whee. XD (and I say that as someone who LOVES the book).

Try reading from the chapter where they decide to head down to the mines. You want Chapter 4 of Book Two: A Journey in the Dark. Awesome stuff. You can always go back for the first part when you re-read it later. ;-) If you liked the movies you'll probably still really enjoy the book once it gets going.