LotR re-read open thread, Acacia review

[kate_nepveu]

Now on Tor.com: LotR re-read: open thread, verse & what would you do? edition; and a long review of David Anthony Durham's Acacia.

(Hi from Montreal, where I am entirely behind on all Internet things but seem to have managed my first panel reasonably well. Now, to the grocery store.)

Comments

[skwidly.livejournal.com]

Actually I would say you managed it very well! Seriously, I don't think I've ever seen someone keep up with who in the audience had questions so assiduously!

[kate_nepveu]

Thanks, that's good to hear. If I was going to run a highly audience-participatory panel it was really important to me that as many people as possible get a chance to talk, and not have things dominated by people with the fastest hands.

[jimbow8.livejournal.com]

Kate, I just found your Re-Read thing on Tor website and ..... well, there's a LOT to read, but I like it so far. I hope to get to a point to contribute a bit.

I noticed that at certain times you compare the books to movies and pacing, etc. I just wanted to comment on what I think is the biggest let-down of the movies (overall I love them): there seems to be no grasp of the huge scope of time that the story takes - the shear enormity of it. The movies seem to take place over a condensed (relatively short) period of time.

I'm looking forward to reading more.

[kate_nepveu]

Thanks!

Showing the passage of time in movies is difficult. There is at least a nod to this in the opening of the first, but the action proper is not explicitly given a timespan so it seems to be all one after another.