5/20/2023 0 Comments Tigana goodreadsGranted he rambles on better than most but some of his characters are terribly developed, especially his female characters who mostly have roles in the appendix. The Lord of the Rings book ends with a whimper and on a silly chapter that any editor would’ve cut. First book is a slow prod through the countryside with the same adventurous lightweight feeling of The Hobbit, while Return of the King is a condensed tale of cold epic battles and a quite ridiculous second to last chapter where Saruman is a weak idiot attacking the Shire. It’s so obvious that Tolkien didn’t know where it was heading while writing it. Fantasy books are all very much descendent from Tolkien or Conan the Barbarian and there is a trend with these books that annoys me to no end which I really want to comment on: They are too long and long winded! This is even true for the grand master of fantasy himself.Have you read Lord of the Rings recently? It’s a wonderful and amazing book of course but one that is badly in need of an editor. I love a good fantasy as well, but I also have a bit of a pedantic problem where I also want them well written, which in my opinion is rare to find in the genre… although in recent years standards have been elevated with really great new authors like Patrick Rothfuss (Name of the Wind) and Susannah Clarke (Jonathan Strange and Mr. One thing most of my geeky friends have in common is that most of them read heroic or epic fantasy books.
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