Poll of the week

[featherynscale]

[Poll #1240475]

Comments

[pwned-kisa.livejournal.com]

So, basically, my quarrel with the WoT series is the same issue I had with Tolken's stuff - he's just too damn wordy. Dude, really, you don't need to take up five pages to describe a mountain. I ended up skipping most of LotR, to get to the actual story. But then, when I watched the movies, it was insta-love, just add great cinematography. So, then, maybe it would be survivable, if they cut out most of the words by putting in pictures.

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...and don't I sound intelligent, now.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Heh. My favorite part of any of the Tolkien stuff is when he stops the main story to have a character sing or tell another story. Apparently, this is the stuff that everybody else skips. But, as mentioned above, I'm a mutant. I'm also an obsessive world-builder, so I think I dig the wordiness that establishes that there's a rich background, it's not just some characters moving a plot through empty space.

For contrast, I liked the movies, but thought they were waaaaaay too long. My attention span for visual media is extremely minimal.

[theslice.livejournal.com]

I'm with pwnedkitten above... I really, REALLY don't need to know a particular character's linage up to eleventy generations ago unless it has some bearing on a) the plot itself or b) how a character acts or reacts in a situation.

And the 3-page-long songs that have nothing to do with anything? Shorten to "The Fellowship sang some truly awesome First Age tunes for the remainder of the trip to keep themselves amused." Done and DONE.