JRRT spent over fifteen years writing, editing, re-writing, changing direction, re-writing yet again...as jd says, there's damn little wasted persiflage in the book.
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Originally Posted by Tien ... you could probably shrink it into a fairly fast paced action story of 'normal' length. |
"Normal" length? What's
that, these days?
When you look at the series that have been produced
as unbroken narrative lately,
LotR is fairly short... Martin's
ASoIaF, and Jordan's
WoT, to name but two, both beat it into a cocked hat for sustained storytelling, albeit in multiple volumes.