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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [qb] I think you misinterpreted my quote there. I meant that Glaurung and Morgoth had been introduced just a few chapters before the tale of H�rin's bane. Neither Glaurung nor Melkor were introduced like you describe, with some boring list of names or prosaically, they had their own stories. As for you calling yourself a bonafide artistic, I didn't know that was a handicap for reading books with the informations in them. When I was 19, I sketched a guy in Laos with a graphite no.8 at a thousand yards in high wind. Maybe eight or even ten guys in the world could have made that sketch. But when I stumble upon lore related to a book I read earlier, I feel like it fleshes out the scraps of info I had gotten before, and then I am happy. For instance, had I read "The Hobbit" after LOTR, I would've ate up all the stuff referring to the Necromancer and Gollum's relationship with the ring like it was ice cream. And also, like Peregrinus was privy too, the swords of Gandalf and Bilbo/Frodo coming from the sacking of Gondolin? Shit like that, I love it. [/qb][/QUOTE]Well I wasn't claiming Da Vinci like superpowers, just that if I can't picture what's going on, I get lost and it's all just a jumble of words. Perhaps it's more a form of dyslexia, who knows! All I know is all those names are bloody hard to keep straight, to the point where I have trouble associating them with anything visual. Don't get me wrong, trivia and backstory is great, it's just the way it's presented is more like a writers guide to the source material. Very stuffy, like (surprise surprise) a scholar's recording of translated myths & legends, distilled down to the pure facts without any of the storytelling flare that made them compelling. Now if they start writing books based on that material, then I'm all for it. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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