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Lord of the Rings Lorecast

101: Unfinished Tales: The Path to the Great Gate

Lord of the Rings Lorecast

Robots Radio

Arts, Fiction, Tv & Film, Books

5635 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Tuor and Voronwë reach the end of their road and find the most dangerous situation yet.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lore cast, the show that explores write, to create your own scripts, your own stories, or when somebody's on the internet critiquing a new TV show or something like that

0:39.9

is often the expression, show, don't tell.

0:45.9

It's bantered around by lots of people.

0:49.3

It's one of those phrases that is very common in our society.

0:53.0

And it's one of those things that a lot of us take for

0:55.3

granted. We think, oh, well, okay, yeah, it's always better to show than tell. It's always better to show

0:59.3

than tell. And if you were to ask an artist, what color is better to use, more often blue or green,

1:08.4

you're not going to hear just one answer.

1:12.3

They're going to say, well, it depends on the context of the thing you're painting.

1:16.2

If you're painting a tree, a green tree is probably better than a blue tree unless the tree

1:21.5

needs to be blue for some specific reason.

1:24.6

Context matters, and it matters to the artist, the person who's making it. Now,

1:29.3

there's still probably a good reason most of the time to paint a tree green and most of the

1:35.2

time to show and not tell. But sometimes telling does something that showing doesn't do,

1:43.0

and it's useful.

1:47.0

And you can see this across Tolkien's works.

1:54.6

One of the reasons why I enjoy going into the depth of Tours' story in The Unfinished Tales is because there's so much more showing and less telling than in something like the Silmarillion.

2:02.0

But imagine a Silmarillion that only showed and never told.

2:10.4

It would be cool.

2:12.3

We would have zoomed in situations with each of the characters, understanding every little detail up close.

2:22.8

It would feel much more like the Lord of the Rings, I would suppose.

2:27.0

But with that much more detail on each of the characters, imagine how large that work would be. There's also the aspect that because so much in the

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