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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3482894" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>Aye, but that's just his strength as a storyteller showing through. I could say the same thing about Fooly Cooly, and I can watch the whole thing in the time it would take me to read the first half of FotR.</p><p></p><p>Most of the time, his storytelling triumphed his worldbuilding, but there's plenty of time when that's not true and the story plods along or stops in mid-adventure for him to introduce some inconsequential side-gibberish. His storytelling pulled it out eventually, but he'd still spend time playing around with Tom Bombadil (for instance) instead of getting on with it. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p><p></p><p>The first time through LotR, I skipped everything that wasn't about Frodo and Sam. I figured, "This doesn't really matter. They're running interference. I don't care about any of these characters. They're not the ones saving the world." </p><p></p><p>I missed some interesting stuff, but I wouldn't say I missed anything of key importance for the plot. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 3482894, member: 2067"] Aye, but that's just his strength as a storyteller showing through. I could say the same thing about Fooly Cooly, and I can watch the whole thing in the time it would take me to read the first half of FotR. Most of the time, his storytelling triumphed his worldbuilding, but there's plenty of time when that's not true and the story plods along or stops in mid-adventure for him to introduce some inconsequential side-gibberish. His storytelling pulled it out eventually, but he'd still spend time playing around with Tom Bombadil (for instance) instead of getting on with it. :p The first time through LotR, I skipped everything that wasn't about Frodo and Sam. I figured, "This doesn't really matter. They're running interference. I don't care about any of these characters. They're not the ones saving the world." I missed some interesting stuff, but I wouldn't say I missed anything of key importance for the plot. :) [/QUOTE]
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