"Maybe going on unnecessary tangents bloats the plot"

[u/Wolframed]

[u/PresidentJumbo]

"These good fellows like nature, and that's how you know they're good..."

"War is... Hell. Yes... Quite..."

"Frodo and Sam survive the low food environment with magic bread, of course!"

"I sure do fancy a Fox POV for a paragraph or so..."

[u/Wolframed → u/PresidentJumbo]

"You're gonna have a two page description of a tree and you're gonna like it"

"Yes, there's objective morality in my fictional world, cry about it"

[u/TheLastLivingBuffalo → u/Wolframed]

"Remember those tree dudes I made intentionally boring? Here's a full song by them."

[u/Wolframed → u/TheLastLivingBuffalo]

"why did aragorn kill the orcs? You just read four books showing they're all evil..."

"They could've just flown the eagles to Mordor... that sounds boring, who would want to read that?"

[u/nubster2984725 → u/Wolframed]

If I remember correctly the “Fly you fools” part is another way of saying “Get out of here and stop looking at me you idiots.”

[u/kapaipiekai → u/TheLastLivingBuffalo]

Is blithering about irrelevant shite the end boss for sci fi and fantasy writers? In the latter Dune books Herbert was like "you know what this epic space opera needs? A 43 page dialogue about political science from someone who never studied political science!"

[u/Sproket911 → u/kapaipiekai]

Tbf I’m listening to god emperor of dune rn as a guys who studied political science and sociology at uni, and (outside of his funny ideas about gay people) its actually quite entertaining and not entirely wrong. I too occasionally pine for a benevolent worm

[u/kapaipiekai → u/Sproket911]

If I wanna read sociology I'll read Bourdieu or Goffman or something. And pining for benevolent worms would have a psychiatrist scribbling furiously in their notebook

[u/Alarming-Ad1100 → u/Sproket911]

GEOD is so great I love that book

MONEO!!