I look at it as a epic/legend of an old-school tale told around the fire of days gone by. You know, kind of like Beowulf or something. It's not really about the characters, or even the "plot". It's about what happened. You know, kind of like war documentaries written as stories instead of stale voiced rambling

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J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
12/12/2011 04:25:26 AM
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Thank you for reposting these.
12/12/2011 04:36:06 PM
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Interestingly enough
13/12/2011 12:10:08 AM
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Re: Interestingly enough
13/12/2011 12:42:10 PM
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I think
13/12/2011 01:21:41 PM
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Probably, yes, but still no excuse for allowing the worldbuilding to overpower the story being told.
13/12/2011 04:00:23 PM
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We'll have to disagree.
14/12/2011 12:46:23 AM
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Alright.
14/12/2011 12:40:25 PM
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for the sake of the history/epic?
14/12/2011 02:40:33 PM
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Re-reads after a long period of time can lead to surprising results
13/12/2011 01:02:23 AM
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The speech patterns were intentional, but not meant to be "archaic".
14/12/2011 04:02:55 AM
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Oh, I know that
14/12/2011 08:25:53 AM
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I love the dialogue in LOTR. a more modern voice would be terrible *NM*
15/12/2011 06:09:18 PM
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