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Post by BloodLustD on Jan 27, 2004 8:59:02 GMT -5
Yeah He's not a very acomplised story teller
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Post by Lady Elessar on Jan 27, 2004 9:20:57 GMT -5
i love tolkiens style of writing...he puts in so much detail and he writes as if the things are actuallly happening; a real converstaion that the people would have. And his detail is amazing...I mean the silmarillion is just mind-blowing
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Post by Majsju on Jan 27, 2004 12:02:56 GMT -5
lol, Tolkien is not even close to RJ when it comes to details. As for story telling...RJ is a bit more adult in his style
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Post by Lady Elessar on Jan 27, 2004 12:12:23 GMT -5
i have to disagree with that  |
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Post by Majsju on Jan 27, 2004 17:50:10 GMT -5
well, if you've only read one chapter of WoT, your opinion is more or less irrelevant. Read the books, or don't compare them.
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Post by Tinker on Jan 27, 2004 18:48:15 GMT -5
Eve how come it seems like your enmity towards WoT is growing?
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Post by skittles on Jan 28, 2004 5:57:57 GMT -5
she puts magic pills in when she's watering it.
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Post by Lady Elessar on Jan 28, 2004 11:45:31 GMT -5
HAHAHAHA!
thats great
i just dont like it...
and they have some things in it that i just dont like
just boring ok
its just my opinion
each to his own
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Post by Nailo on Feb 2, 2004 4:47:12 GMT -5
(oops.... kinda forgot bout this thread....)
I agree with Majsju, I think that RJ is more of an adult aimed style............with all the hidden plots, and back stories,
Just make's the world live that there are so many different back stories, plot twists, it just makes the world more alive.
No offense to JRRT but his world just seems to end, and no one really has much of a past that I could see.....
then again, just the humble opinion of the future world dominator........or should that be dominatrix? ;D
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Post by Lady Elessar on Feb 2, 2004 14:17:46 GMT -5
im not even going to say anymore...  |
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Post by MatrimCauthon on Feb 4, 2004 6:36:18 GMT -5
I've read LotR more than 10 times, and all the background like the silmarillion, hobbit, lost tales etc., and I lovw it! It's a great story, and there is a lot of detail involved, it is the greatest fantasy book ever written  BUT, I've read the WoT series 4 times and doing it again at the moment, and as a series, it has much more detail, each of the 10 books is 3/4 the size of LotR!!! As for the style, it's definitely more involved, where JRR explains everything, RJ goes for different points of view, so readers can see how the characters interact on a much more personal level. JRR wrote a story of good vs evil and wrote it well, RJ is writing a story of one good vs another vs a neutral vs an evil vs a greater evil, and is writing it well. Both are brilliant, WoT is more interesting (probably cos I've too much free time so prefer the longer one!) |
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Post by skittles on Feb 4, 2004 7:00:57 GMT -5
i have a question: what does this smiley mean: sorry off topic. Lotr rules! yep yep, Wot is also awesome. |
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Post by Lady Elessar on Feb 4, 2004 18:22:11 GMT -5
every heard the phrase 'green with envy?" it means that you are jealous
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Post by Viviane on Feb 6, 2004 20:30:39 GMT -5
aaaa....yeah...so...once you read the 1st book (which is a little slow in the beginning )your just dieing to know what happens ....and for detail hes written like what 11
books on the same subject .....detail is all he writes(ok
maybe not true ......MAYBE)tolkien ssooooo could've
wrote 11 books on lord of the rings...whoa why didnt he? great know i have to wait til im dead to ask....isnt that just great?i suggest you read the first one then you'll just read the rest in 3 monthes if your anything like me.....and i read the 1st out of courtesy cause i got it from a classmate
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Post by skittles on Feb 7, 2004 9:13:10 GMT -5
my sister who is like 14 years older than me named her first son Rand. i got curious about the Jordan books about a year ago and that's when i began reading them. i'm only half way through the series(loving it though) cuz i've been busy and also i've been reading other stuff in between the books (like rotk). just got the Silmarillion so i plan on reading that next. be a while before i finish WoT...
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