re: #46 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I have a whole paper written on the hero’s journey in the classic trilogy. For junior year English class, if I remember corrently. I think I saved Harry Potter for senior year.

But the original succeeded because it was fun. Not because of the storytelling. Let’s face it: storytelling was not really Lucas’s forte.

Yeah. He lucked out with the first three, because the core actors managed to pull off the lame dialogue and the Gee-Whiz factor propelled the story. The prequels had none of that.