Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lore cast, the show that explores the background of

Tolkien's amazing or stories.

But here I am again, surprised, or at least uncovering things and

understanding them in a deeper way. And I'm happy to communicate that with you as well.

Now, speaking about communicating things, have you ever been in a situation where you knew a lot

about something because it was for your job or a hobby, or it was something that you really loved.

And somebody asked you a question about it.

And so you started explaining it in detail.

And after about, I don't know, 30 seconds, their eyes started to glaze over.

Then you realized that you've committed the cardinal sin of over explaining things, or at least explaining

it to a detailed level that they were not expecting and ready to digest in the moment.

And this isn't your fault, it's not their fault, this is a very natural human reaction to

having to digest and consume a large amount of information all at one time.

Our brains find that taxing, and sometimes we find it not necessarily the thing that we really

wanted to think about at the time, or whatever.

Now, when you are a novelist or a content creator, this is something I've learned as well,

if you're going to convey information, you need to wrap it up in something more entertaining, something that, I don't know, a little bit of sugar makes the medicine go down.

That's that sort of thing.

And I think this is something that Tolkien definitely understood.

In fact, I think this is something that many people have understood for a very long time.

And it works great for content creation as well.

If I simply give you a list of facts, then you would very quickly turn off the show.

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