PieFed.WorldOne of these is better than the others
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Nick East (Indie Writer)
One of these is better than the others... you know the one I mean š
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Tolkien pilfered that universe from already existing myths and legends.
True, but I donāt know why people look down upon such inspiration. I think itās really cool.
Taking real world history and adapting it into your world is also cool but the meme still looks down on GRRM.
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Tolkien took several names straight from the Edda. Gandalf is the most famous, but several dwarven names as well.
Iām not looking down on it, but other people are looking down on other writers for doing the same thing.
So did pretty much every myth and legend. And religions for that matter. Thatās how stories are built, itās putting the pieces together in a new interesting way that makes a good one.
So why is it āstealingā from real life history then?
Itās a meme
Our Glorious Inspiration
Their Barbaric Theft
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I loved the *idea* of the Silmarillion. I don't think I even made it to 10% before I went into a brief coma.
It was never turned into a consistent storyline. He partially rewrote it several times, and never completed any one of them. Each section (Gondolin, Luthien, Turin, etc.) was still in draft mode when he died, and his son was left to try to make sense of it.
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I love it because it is akin to studying ancient texts. Commercial publishers put out highly curated versions of the popular classics that rewrite or reconstruct most of it. But studying the actual text, or as close as one can, in archeology books that contextualize the texts and annotate what we know and what we assume, and the different sources of each piece. It is so fascinating how much is like detective work. Lots of things are incomplete or only make sense by using assumptions from elsewhere in historical evidence. Thatās my approach to the Silmarillion.
To be fair, The Hobbit didnāt start as a Middle-earth story and was retconned into being one after he started writing the sequel. Which is why the only mention of Hobbits in The Silmarillion is a line at the very end about Frodo destroying the One Ring even though The Shire either was a client state of Numenor before it sank or is the last remaining part of the Numenorean government.
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I didnāt recognize the third until I read the comments andā¦ yeah I guess thatās a childrenās book.
I was hoping for a crazy TIL about R.L. Stein or E.B. White something.
The real āRRā
I donāt think weāre supposed to laud her anymore because of all the trans hate and stuff
I donāt think this is lauding
Sheās clowning these two dogs and itās not lauding?
The meme calls her a bad writer.
No it doesnāt sheās right on top of these bozos