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Anonymous07/29/26, 14:25No.25431712
>The Lord of the Rings is only 477,000 words long
Genuinely, how is that even possible? To cram so much into so little? Each book must be only about 130k words, but they feel so massive. How? HOW?
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Anon07/29/26, 14:27No.25431717
They are boring and a slog to read through so reading a single page feels like reading 3 or 4 pages
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Anon07/29/26, 15:17No.25431800
Tolkien despite his reputation was a concise author who knew how to keep the plot moving.He is a big contrast to many modern fantasy authors. I'm currently nearly 1000 pages into The Last King of Osten Ard quadrilogy by Tad Williams, and it feels like the plot has only recently started rolling around.
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Anon07/29/26, 15:30No.25431817
The stereotype of Tolkien has been that he's over-descriptive, in a way that drags, and I think that's the same explanation for why he's concise. He's not being overly descriptive, he's telling you only what you need to know but there's a lot of it. It drags because it's dense. The plot itself moves.
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Anon07/29/26, 16:26No.25431881
Tolkien used a technique that most writers aren't aware of. It's called "pacing".
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Anon07/29/26, 16:43No.25431911
Am I supposed to find this crazy or something?
Seems totally normal.
People must be used to bloated time wasting stuff these days.
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Anon07/29/26, 16:48No.25431917
Isn't War & Peace like 100k words longer
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Anon07/29/26, 17:06No.25431945
That's basically the same word count as Stephen King's IT. LOTR doesn't even have any child gangbangs.
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Anon07/29/26, 17:19No.25431964
Thats actually a lot of words. You have a strange conception of "too little"
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Anon07/29/26, 17:37No.25431996
because you write too much shit you spastic
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Anon07/29/26, 18:56No.25432162
He doesn't waste time with pointless shit like food and people shitting
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Anon07/29/26, 20:05No.25432334
And then you have guys like Laozi.
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Anon07/29/26, 23:47No.25432784
>tfw a GRRM fan encounters LotR
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Anon07/30/26, 02:38No.25433049
It's a book series for children and teens, OP. What do you expect?
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Anon07/30/26, 06:23No.25433313
stick to where the wild things are, greymatterlet
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Anon07/30/26, 13:15No.25433770
lotr movies > lotr books
harry potter books > harry potter movies
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Anon07/30/26, 22:33No.25434792
How can you even say this when modern fantasy books exist whose first book in a series campares to the whole trilogy? For example: A Game of Thrones is ~290k words. Curb your enthusiasm.
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Anon07/31/26, 11:21No.25435613
LOTR is fantasyslop for people too immature to read the classics.
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Anon07/31/26, 15:19No.25435896
>To cram so much into so little?
That was unexpected. I thought you were going to say the opposite.
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Anon07/31/26, 18:26No.25436266
it's YA fiction
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Anon08/01/26, 14:25No.25437843
Like two thirds of that are descriptions of nature lol