Tolkien was tame. Try Karl May for comparison. He’d describe the prairie down to every blade of grass.
When I asked my friends, who loved Karl May stories, how they could cope with that and they all admitted to just skipping those passages. My completionist ass was disgusted.
Someone once told me that Bret Easton Ellis (who is a jerk) fully expected his readers to skim his novels, and wrote many sections with that in mind, and all I could think is: “What is the point of this charade?” I was so irritated!
German author Walter Moers invented the Zamonian author Hildegunst von Mythenmetz who was known for his literary use of “Mythenmetz tangents” where he’d start writing about something totally unrelated to what the story was currently about. One of his books basically consisted only of those and the last sentence read “And our story begins here.”
Honestly, Chad move.
“Our story begins here.” ends the book
The super descriptive writing style really does lend itself to the drunk or stoned reader…
Trees, dude
Tolkin spending a long time describing trees
It’s what treebeard would’ve wanted
I could not make it through the two towers, either the movie or the book, because of this specific issue. I will try again one day, but holy shit is that frustrating.
