Post #986955

So over at bsky ppl are commenting on a booktok discussion about not reading prologues or epilogues because if they were meant to be read they would be in the book?! But this got me thinking, do people read those songs and poems often at the start of fanstasy novel chapters or when embedded in them? I think the lord of the rings broke me for ever reading those. They were always completely useless, and sooo long. Maybe I’m just not sophisticated enough to get what he was trying to do with them.