when it comes to their books.
The way LOTR was written made it so fucking boring, I dropped it halfway through The Two Towers.
The Twilight series, on the other hand, was so entertaining that I read it till the very end. I don’t care if the characters are trashy / drama is crap / whatever; I just want to be entertained.
The ridiculous amount of songs and poems in the LOTR books were incredibly boring. They’re certainly not page turners. Very slow pacing and often overly detailed descriptions abound.
You’re not wrong. But also I don’t think it would be quite the same without, and the tedious display of reverance for song and poetry contributes something very human (and often beyond human) to many of the characters.
I’m with the OP, I gave it a shot but the songs and poems were a negative for me too. I just started skipping them, and also skipping most of the giant paragraphs detailing what a broom looked like or how a piece of ham glistened or whatever.
I genuinely don’t even know where that is coming from. He is known for lengthy description of landscape and geographical features, and that critique would be valid, but… not about trivial details about random objects like this? Huh??
Well I was making an attempt at humor there, maybe not entirely fair. I do remember descriptions around feasts and stuff like that being overly long, but they might not have included descriptions of mundane objects like I was implying.