BSP Episode 200: Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Extended Edition)

This episode was recorded at Archon 35.

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This episode was recorded October 1, 2011.

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1 Father Beast // Oct 18, 2011 at 7:23 pm

The reason the fellowship of the ring was such a boring read may be due to what I’ve heard:

They say that Tolkien was wanting to make a sequel to the hobbit, and had some hobbits wandering the countryside and having adventures, to no special purpose. And after writing about a book’s worth, he realized it was boring. Then he came up with the idea of the war of the ring, and ended up using a bunch of his previous attempt as filler in the first book.

Don’t know if that’s actually true.
2 FowlSorcerous // Nov 21, 2011 at 8:43 pm

not all that far from it, early drafts were similar to the hobbit in structure and were much light-hearted than the final version. also aragorn started out as a one-footed hobbit named trotter.

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