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One of these is better than the others... you know the one I mean ๐Ÿ˜ @bookstodon @books @worldbuilding @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop#SpeculativeFiction #FantasyBooks#FantasyMemes #Worldbuilding #Fantasy #SciFi #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour #Funny#Low #High #Epic #Science #Opera #Hard #CottageCore #SolarPunk #Comedic #Whatever #GiveMeAllYouveGot#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #BookLove

Meme compairing three Fantasy writers worldbuilding: J.K Rowling: Only start creating a lore after you already finished half of the series and keep adding stuff a decade after finishing it G.R.R Martin: Steal 90% of your deep lore from real life history and other authors to fill out your world map J.R.R Tolkien: Create an entire universe with a bloody, theological history with of hundreds of characters and dozens of devastating wars, then write a childrens book in it

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[โ€“] 26 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Tolkien pilfered that universe from already existing myths and legends.

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  • [โ€“] 19 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    True, but I don't know why people look down upon such inspiration. I think it's really cool.

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    • [โ€“] 12 points 8 months ago

    Our Glorious Inspiration

    Their Barbaric Theft

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    [โ€“] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    @NickEast_IndieWriter @bookstodon @books @worldbuilding @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop I loved the idea of the Silmarillion. I don't think I even made it to 10% before I went into a brief coma.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [+] 12 points 8 months ago (1 child)
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  • [โ€“] 3 points 8 months ago*

    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. That's my approach to the Silmarillion.

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    • [โ€“] 2 points 8 months ago

    To be fair, The Hobbit didn't 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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    [โ€“] 1 point 8 months ago

    The real โ€œRRโ€

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    [โ€“] 1 point 8 months ago

    I didn't recognize the third until I read the comments and... yeah I guess that's a children's book.

    I was hoping for a crazy TIL about R.L. Stein or E.B. White something.

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    [โ€“] 1 point 8 months ago

    @NickEast_IndieWriter @bookstodon @books @worldbuilding @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop independent.co.uk/arts-enterta

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    [โ€“] -4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I don't think we're supposed to laud her anymore because of all the trans hate and stuff

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I don't think this is lauding

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