Tolkien was kind of a pantser, by his own admission

In the foreword to LOTR, he stated that it was a tale that grew in the telling. Of course he had all that Silmarillion class narrative to draw upon but still, he really didn't plot the whole thing out

In his book On Writing, Stephen King claims novelists rarely plot things out - the plot thickens as you write it.

I think what we're seeing here is the primary difference between writing and screenwriting.

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Posted: 05/15/2019 at 5:41PM

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Yeah, I didn't see it... -- `lag 05/15/2019 2:00PM

Have to format the @ correctly -- TomTurkey 05/15/2019 2:09PM

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Reading this Yeah, I agree with this completely. -- `lag 05/15/2019 1:23PM

Tolkien was kind of a pantser, by his own admission -- Baltimore Hokie 05/15/2019 5:41PM

The books certainly had a blocked out narrative... -- `lag 05/15/2019 9:17PM

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This is a good analysis. The tl;dr version: It's a different show from -- hoosnowahokie 05/15/2019 12:27PM

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Tolkien was kind of a pantser, by his own admission

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