Juho Pohjalainen's Blog: Pankarp - Posts Tagged "middle-points"

Imagine if J.R.R. Tolkien had skipped writing The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, or Fellowship of the Ring entirely, and had fast-forwarded right to the Two Towers? And he had no idea what the One Ring even was or what the hobbits were doing with it? And then Eldarion travelled back in time to help them out and tell them of some important bits they could never have known without him at all? Also he already helped kick Gollum into Mt. Doom and he's on the way to give a hand to Bilbo on his way to the Lonely Mountain as well, and then maybe going all the way back to Túrin Turambar and Fëanor as well, except obviously Tolkien is yet to write any of these...

That's kind of like what I'm doing right now. Time travel stuff, involving going farther and farther back in time, except I started writing right from the middle - neither from the chronological beginning, nor from the time traveler's own future home. I think I have a pretty good idea on where the story is going from here, though.