Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lore cast,

the show that explores the background too dense and he includes too much information

that doesn't really matter in the telling of the story.

He got this complaint with the Lord of the Rings, especially because unlike many of the other authors of his time, he spent more time talking about the time of the Rings, especially, because unlike many of the other authors of his time, he spent

more time talking about the time of the year it was, or what the trees were on the side

of the road, and all those little details.

But they matter.

Or at least they mattered to him.

They made a difference in the story.

They created a sense of not only the world and it feeling like it was a real place,

but oftentimes there was symbolism hidden in those details.

And I can totally see and totally understand, because I came from this

perspective as well, that that can be difficult and daunting, especially to a new reader

who doesn't understand where Tolkien is coming from, what influences he's coming from,

what kind of literature he's actually trying to write.

It takes a bit to get to the point where you appreciate those details.

Because sometimes the story isn't just pushing the main plot forward.

It's filling in the details about the meta plot, the rest of what's going on in the history of everything, and seeing the protagonist as just one small piece of a much larger story.

That's what Tolkien has been doing in all of his stories from the beginning.

Bilbo Baggins is the protagonist of the Hobbit.

But when you zoom out, he's just a small piece of a much larger tale.

You could say that for any of the protagonists in these stories.

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