more writers need to understand that the key to writing good romance is to make both characters fleshed out individuals who the audience knows and understands outside of their romance. thats it. take that love interest and give her hobbies and interests? a life outside of being a love interest? boom. 30x more interesting story. thats it thats all you need. its so simple. please. please. please.
One of the first things you learn when you venture beyond The Lord of the Rings into the deeper parts of Tolkien's legendarium is that the history of Middle-Earth involves more werewolves than you'd intuitively expect.
Elaborate.
No, Tolkien's werewolf lore is mostly pretty straightforward.












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