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CuriousG
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May 22 2015, 11:39am
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Then did Theoden ride to glory at sunset
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--must buy carrots, eggs, milk
--cheese too, but not the Swiss kind
and thundering after him came his knights, their armor glistening in the morning's first rays.
--need stamps, and don't forget Edith's birthday (again), or shel'll go Balrog on me
--grade student papers, except that idiot Ian from Leeds; why isn't he expelled??? Dumber than Butterbur on a drunken night
>>>That could be fun. :)
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noWizardme
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May 22 2015, 1:01pm
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In HoME 6 and 7 particularly, You get an interesting study of a writer at work
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As you say, Tolkien agrees to write a 'The Hobbit' sequel, but is not sure what will happen.
I was reading this at about the time I began to write fiction myself and found it wonderfully reassuring. My key discovery was that Tolkien keept going, writing whatever bit he currently can. Sometimes he just tries to keep his latest chapter moving forwards. Sometimes he does plot plotlines (what Christopher Tolkien calls 'The story foreseen from [Point X]' ). Sometimes what starts out as a plot summary suddenly breaks out into full drafting.
What doesn't always come across always in HoME (because of thoroughly sensible editorial decisions about the sequence in which to present all this material) is that Tolkien worked out ideas far ahead of the point he'd currently reached (e.g. he had the gist of the Mount Doom scene very early on). Wandering off on a bearing to see what happened was certainly not his only writing method.
Often, of course it doesn't work. He attaches riders and margin notes, trying things, arguing with himself as to whether the story is working, or ought to be changed. He has to go back and re-write; shore things up, make changes. Sometimes whole plotlines cave in, or he writes stuff that he decides to cut. Sometimes, he seems convinced that a particular thing happened, & is scratching his head to work out how come: how can that idea be saved from an otherwise disastrous draft.
It's not that the whole thing keeps plodding forward - sometimes it is plodding backwards, or round in circles, or stopping altogether. Like one of his own characters, he can't always see that it's going to be OK!
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"nowimė I am in the West, Furincurunir to the Dwarves (or at least, to their best friend) and by other names in other lands. Mostly they just say 'Oh no it's him - look busy!' "
Or "Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!"
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