Explains a lot about LOTR's success, doesn't it? I think I'd expect to feel something lacking in any story that didn't have that knot somewhere at the climax, when almost everyone comes together. (And I'd have a "what then?" feeling without the denouement, where they all go off again.)
It occurs to me that one exception would be Peg Kerr's Wild Swans, where the two threads reflect each other rather than coming together - but I'd still expect to see the same knot pattern in each story in that case, and I'd expect the two to have similar graphs.
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Date: 2009-11-04 02:51 am (UTC)It occurs to me that one exception would be Peg Kerr's Wild Swans, where the two threads reflect each other rather than coming together - but I'd still expect to see the same knot pattern in each story in that case, and I'd expect the two to have similar graphs.