The ending may have been planned but I just hate everything about it ;P
Yes, if your editing had taken place that would have made things smoother/more enjoyable at least for me.
The Hobbit is definitely worth a look, supposedly for children so much easier a read. The famous Gollum scene and the pop culture image of dragons from Smaug atop a pile of gold. To this day if I leave the house in a rush/forgot something I say I feel like Bilbo Baggins leaving with so much as a pocket handkerchief ;) It was darker than I remembered on my most recent re-read though. More character death than I'd recalled. I guess it's a change in how you perceive a text at different times in your own life.
Lastly, on the subject to editing, there's a story about how Tolkien kept editing the Hobbit until his writer friends had to, in modern parlance, stage an intervention before he ruined it! Sadly I can't find the article/LJ post/tumblr post I read it in, but it stuck with me as a writer. The desire to keep tinkering. "Art is never finished, only abandoned" etc!
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Date: 2024-01-22 02:12 pm (UTC)Yes, if your editing had taken place that would have made things smoother/more enjoyable at least for me.
The Hobbit is definitely worth a look, supposedly for children so much easier a read. The famous Gollum scene and the pop culture image of dragons from Smaug atop a pile of gold. To this day if I leave the house in a rush/forgot something I say I feel like Bilbo Baggins leaving with so much as a pocket handkerchief ;)
It was darker than I remembered on my most recent re-read though. More character death than I'd recalled. I guess it's a change in how you perceive a text at different times in your own life.
Lastly, on the subject to editing, there's a story about how Tolkien kept editing the Hobbit until his writer friends had to, in modern parlance, stage an intervention before he ruined it! Sadly I can't find the article/LJ post/tumblr post I read it in, but it stuck with me as a writer. The desire to keep tinkering. "Art is never finished, only abandoned" etc!