That has always been a knock on JRRT - even for LOTR: 50 pages of dialog and 1 paragraph of action [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] but in terms of an historical tome I think it fits. I think of it this way: That one ending probably had a thousand stories and legends, which were inevitably and entirely lost over the ages. We are lucky there was someone (JRRT) who had the "vision" to be able to see the history and was able to translate it into one entire story. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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