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Originally Posted by =X=
You know JR Tolkien wrote a great story in 3 books, how could Jordon after 12 books still couldn't finish his story?! Mind you his books weren't short either they where quite long. You know if you put all of Tolkien 3 books together I think they equal one of Jordon longer books.
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Tolkien described The Lord of the Rings as "a tale that grew in the telling". I doubt he had a clear idea when he set out of exactly what form it would take and how long it would be, and I believe the three volume form we got was dictated by publishing technology of the time, and limits on how big a book
could be in a single volume.
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What I noticed is Jordon style changed in the middle of the series, he started adding a lot of detail that did not enhance the story just dragged it on. It became a choir to finish his books.
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That wasn't really apparent to me, but I haven't gone back to re-read. You may be right. Personally, I'm patient, and while I wouldn't have minded a shorter interval between books, I recognize that stories can go off in directions the author hadn't planned. Sometime characters reach up off the page, grab the author by the collar, give her a good shake, and yell "No, no, no! You ninny! That's not what happened.
This is what happened...!"
(Diane Duane told a story about being in the middle of a Star Trek novel when two male characters from a fantasy she was writing wandered in hand in hand, said "By the way, we're
gay!", and wandered out. In a spirit of serendipity, the next line in the ST book had Captain Kirk saying "Who
were those guys?"
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Dennis