All right, welcome back to the Daily Drive.

I am back again.

I teased this on the previous episode that I was going to talk about storytelling and how storytelling works.

And this is important because it applies again, and this is going to go up on three feeds

on the Lord of the Rings, the Fall or the Cast, the Fallor cast, and the Elder Scrolls

Lordcast.

The storytelling in each of those series is something that evolves over time.

And with video games, it's because you have multiple writers over multiple games and even

different people who own the IPs potentially.

When it comes to the Lord of the Rings, you have the original stories as written by J.R.

Tolkien.

You have the description of how he wrote those stories and greater

expansion of that universe by the publishing of the Silmarillion and then the Middle Earth series

and all the other things that Christopher Tolkien put out. So kind of a secondary source with a lot of

respect of the first source. But then even after that, you ended up with different variations on movies and books and comic

books and video games, all sorts of other things.

So in all of these situations, you end up with multiple authors working on those stories.

And inevitably, like in the conversation we had about

canonicity, that is going to come with people who disagree

and have different opinions about the way the stories should have gone,

or how you should, or maybe shouldn't even expand those universes.

Many people will latch onto a specific video game or a

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