: Although J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings seems to "spectacle creep" from evading the Black Riders, to saving Rohan, to saving Gondor, to the final confrontation with Mordor, he ends the story

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Although J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings seems to "spectacle creep" from evading the Black Riders, to saving Rohan, to saving Gondor, to the final confrontation with Mordor, he ends the story with the Sacking of the Shire.

This end the story on a kind of small personal battle for the Hobbits, which, in the grand scheme of things in Middle Earth is not so important. In my opinion, this kind of checks/resets the spectacle creep. Using a method similar to this might allow to you reset your own stories "creep".

The other thing that Tolkien seems to do is have his main characters (the Hobbits), play roles that are not the super-strong, all-powerful hero trope. Thus, while they are swept along with the main events of the story, they each find their own small individual stories and battles. This also seems to dampen the spectacle creep throughout the entire story, not just at the end.

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