[ SECRET POST #261 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #261 ⌋

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Secrets Left to Post: 09 pages, 201 secrets from Secret Submission Post #038.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, [ 1 ] not!secrets, 0 not!fandom, [ 1 ] repeat.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Monday, September 24th, 2007.
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Comments

[cephiedvariable.livejournal.com]

26. I love the movies for what they are, honestly, and I don't fault people for loving them as well but... er, I DO die a little on the inside every time someone states their undying affection for Peter Jackson's epics... and then follows it up with a: "But I just couldn't get through the books. They were SOOOOO boring!" T__T I know, I know- Tokien's writing isn't for everyone, but guuuuh. I can't help it.

[crackjaw.livejournal.com]

IAWTC--I made it halfway through Two Towers and collapsed out of exhaustion. I just couldn't take it anymore.

[cephiedvariable.livejournal.com]

Well, actually I was saying I die a little bit on the inside everyone says something like that, but yeah: I can appreciate it. Tolkien's writing is kind of the personification of an old, stuffy, British man who believed that English students should stick to studying Medieval Literature, what is all this rubbish about contemporary work, Lewis are you mad!? I love it kind of passionately, but I've come to realize in the years since the movies came out that it's just not for everyone. In that sense the movies are doing a service by making the story more accessible to people who didn't have their father shoving the history of Middle Earth into their brains for their entire childhood.

BUT AS LONG AS PEOPLE AREN'T CLAIMING R.A. SALVATORE IS A BETTER WRITER TOLKIEN, I'LL LIVE. :D

[crackjaw.livejournal.com]

I appreciate the books hardcore, actually. My mom loves them like nothing else, and I love the story and characters and I really admire how detailed he made his universe (HE INVENTED MULTIPLE LANGUAGES, FOR GOD'S SAKE) but I just...I can't read them. I don't know, it's like he uses pages to describe a wall, augh. I think it's just too much for a lot of the contemporary audience (like me, lol) and if he had submitted it to a publisher today it would probably have gotten rejected, but I think that's just our attention spans dwindling as society develops more than anything.

OH SORRY I'M AN ENGLISH MAJOR OOPS

[cephiedvariable.livejournal.com]

I honestly wonder at that. As a fan of both classical literature and contemporary literature... and as a fan of things like video games and cartoons that are apparently "destroying the intellect of the new generation", I'd like to deny that, but y'know... as much as I love novels and plays written before 1920, I really have to put myself in a different mindspace when I'm reading them. :P

I always think: "Oh, it's just that contemporary literature is more in tune with our current societal mores, of course it's easier to read!", but yeah. I can't help but agree with you on the attention span thing. *sigh*

Re: OH SORRY I'M AN ENGLISH MAJOR OOPS

[crackjaw.livejournal.com]

MAYBE MY ATTENTION SPAN IS JUST TOO SHORT, HAHA. But I really don't think things like TV are helping, even if I do think they're awesome and worth some merit.

[(Anonymous)]

Picture me nodding enthusiastically. Thank you for posting this, it was said far, far better than anything I could have ever written to make people comprehend the phenomenon.

I do appreciate the movies for causing a new wave of Tolkien-love, and they are a decent, very decent summary, but I just don't understand how people don't want to delve deeper into the world Tolkien has created just because it would require them to read a book. It's possible that this is the thing that irks me most, Lord of the Rings is just the medium it has become most observable in, and the one that touches me nearest because I love the books so much.

I really have to put myself in a different mindspace when I'm reading them. And that effort (and little effort, I think) people are unwilling to make... why?

our attention spans dwindling as society develops more than anything

In response to that I quote the Master:

[...]
I will not walk with your progressive apes,
erect and sapient. Before them gapes
the dark abyss to which their progress tends
if by God's mercy progress ever ends,
and does not ceaselessly revolve the same
unfruitful course with changing of a name.
[...]

(from Mythopoeia (http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/mythopoeia.html) - enough said.)