>Falls into the worldbuilding trap so hard he wrote a fucking language
>First book had exactly 2 memorable characters
>subsequent books all have multiple entire chapters dedicated to random worldbuilding sidetangents completely irrelevant to the plot or characters
>wasted time making multiple entire books' worth of lore he never intended to release
>spawned the most influential medium-defining work of literature in centuries
I though worldbuilding was a waste of time when it cane to writing/no one cared? How did he do it?

>Falls into the worldbuilding trap so hard he wrote a fucking language
>First book had exactly 2 memorable characters
>subsequent books all have multiple entire chapters dedicated to random worldbuilding sidetangents completely irrelevant to the plot or characters
>wasted time making multiple entire books' worth of lore he never intended to release
>spawned the most influential medium-defining work of literature in centuries
I though worldbuilding was a waste of time when it cane to writing/no one cared? How did he do it?