tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post47409397916652806..comments2024-03-19T07:27:06.216-04:00Comments on VOTARIES OF HORROR: Thoughts on The Return of the King, Extended VersionKatherine Woodburyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14364517253667798449noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post-58180915925222447852013-01-10T12:43:42.989-05:002013-01-10T12:43:42.989-05:00It is interesting, especially since Tolkien did ma...It is interesting, especially since Tolkien did make some adjustments to The Hobbit after he wrote LOTR (in fact, some analysis of LOTR argues that even in Fellowship, Tolkien wasn't sure exactly where he was going, so in a way the four books taken together provide insight into Tolkien's thought/writing process). <br /><br />I've encountered the issue of what really happens first versus what we experience first when reading plot summaries by students. They will tell a story according to how they saw/read it, so they won't mention the background information until it came up in the movie/novel--"And then the characters found out . . ."--when actually, providing the background information first would make more sense/create tighter summaries.<br /><br />But then, what the viewer/reader remembers is that moment of clarification or epiphany--the unexpected unveiling of information at the most exciting moment. <br /><br />I've always enjoyed not exactly series books but books about a similar universe containing the same characters where important/seminal events from one book occur in another but in the background or off-stage--as you say, the switch in perspective can be very illuminating!Kate Woodburyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06276977170991272672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post-29066504701262125002013-01-10T12:00:15.209-05:002013-01-10T12:00:15.209-05:00Saw the Hobbit, too. I thought it fairly faithful...Saw the Hobbit, too. I thought it fairly faithful to the book, but the changes were driven by the fact that, in these movies, it is a prequel - a story that takes place before, but is told after - the LoTR story. <br /><br />The book itself is written simply as a story, and then LoTR comes later.<br /><br />Which strikes me as an interesting aspect of narrative - the order in which the story is told has significant implications for the story itself. We are accustomed, I think, to tell stories as we experience them, that is, according to a temporal sequence. But it's sometimes more illuminating to mix that temporal sequence up.a calvinist preachernoreply@blogger.com