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Probably, yes, but still no excuse for allowing the worldbuilding to overpower the story being told. Macharius Send a noteboard - 13/12/2011 04:00:23 PM
The ruins have more personality than most of the characters! For that matter, I know more about Aragorn's genealogy than I do Aragorn as a person.

And that's a problem.
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Thank you for reposting these. - 12/12/2011 04:36:06 PM 943 Views
Interestingly enough - 13/12/2011 12:10:08 AM 790 Views
Re: Interestingly enough - 13/12/2011 12:42:10 PM 771 Views
I think - 13/12/2011 01:21:41 PM 836 Views
Probably, yes, but still no excuse for allowing the worldbuilding to overpower the story being told. - 13/12/2011 04:00:23 PM 777 Views
We'll have to disagree. - 14/12/2011 12:46:23 AM 792 Views
Alright. - 14/12/2011 12:40:25 PM 874 Views
for the sake of the history/epic? - 14/12/2011 02:40:33 PM 792 Views
Everyone cares about their own bit of history. - 14/12/2011 04:24:16 PM 765 Views
Agreed - 23/12/2011 05:27:02 AM 783 Views
The speech patterns were intentional, but not meant to be "archaic". - 14/12/2011 04:02:55 AM 851 Views
Oh, I know that - 14/12/2011 08:25:53 AM 842 Views
I love the dialogue in LOTR. a more modern voice would be terrible *NM* - 15/12/2011 06:09:18 PM 375 Views
You might want to re-read what I said more carefully - 15/12/2011 07:03:23 PM 831 Views

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