Fantasy World Meme
You find yourself in front of seven identical doors.
A voice from above tells you:
"These seven doors lead to seven places:
Narnia, Neverland, Wonderland, Hogwarts, Camelot, Middle-earth, and Westeros.
Which door do you go through?
Why that door? What happens?"I've had a good think on this and realised it's a very difficult ( Read more... )
A voice from above tells you:
"These seven doors lead to seven places:
Narnia, Neverland, Wonderland, Hogwarts, Camelot, Middle-earth, and Westeros.
Which door do you go through?
Why that door? What happens?"I've had a good think on this and realised it's a very difficult ( Read more... )
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It's just so difficult, isn't it, with when you're getting there. I'm all for hot knights, but when half or them die.. It does make a point against it :p Stupid writers.. :p
But yep, I'm completely with you on all of it :D
And yeah let's leave the orcs and Sauron alone.. *shifty eyes*
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It's an interesting thing when you think about it..how women don't fare very well in fantasy worlds in general. I suppose Harry Potter's world is pretty good on equality.Tolkein doesn't give women much to do in general but there's Éowyn so at least he didn't think females were either invisible or helpless maidens to be swept off their feet by the handsome warrior. (Although I don't have a problem being swept of my feet by said handsome warrior!):D #hopelessromantic
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I've thought about women in Tolkien a lot. Even thought of doing my dissertation on that subject, but decided against it since I am no feminist and I'd have to dive into that part of the argument too. I think in Tolkien's world, he came from the trenches, where there were no women at all. I think that translates into his writing: absence of women. Where they are there, they are the nurses and mothers, as he encountered them in his life. The interesting thing though is that one of the most important characters of Middle-earth is female (Galadriel) and Eowyn is all sorts of awesome. So there is that, which IMO argues that he's not anti-feminist nor saw them as just fit for the kitchen, but that women weren't part of the world of war at that time.
Oh that turned out rather long.. LOL
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For me: how to choose between Westeros, Middle Earth and Hogwarts? I think I'd pick Hogwarts in the end because much as adolescence sucks, being a teenager in a school for magic would be pretty bloody awesome. :D (And I always wanted to try those Honeydukes sweets...)
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That's the thing though. A big part of answering it lays in where and when do I join the world? Am I a regular human or can I fit in with the world itself, say have magic? Can I turn into an Elf? Yes? Then I'd love to go to Lothlórien. Just a human? Then Gondor after the fall of Sauron and return of Aragorn. Can I go back to being an adolescent? Then Hogwarts is definitely an option too :D
I just love thinking about these things XD
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If I could choose who I'd be in Middle Earth, I'd be an elf - 100% sure! Coolest damn people in the land. :D And Rivendellllll.... I've always wished I could live there. :DD
I love thinking about them too, especially as I'm writing fantasy and want to create a world that's good. It's intimidating sometimes, looking at people like Tolkien and Rowling and thinking how they've created worlds so detailed that you want to fall into them and live there... but it's inspiring too!
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Heh, again, same here :D I'm also focussing on fantasy and scifi myself. So cool though that the novel you're writing will be fantasy! :D And tell me about it yeah.. Often I think of something for the story, be it for the plot or for a character or a characteristic of a race and then think: no wait.. Tolkien already did that.. Something you can't really get around, and as much as I love the man, as a writer it can be annoying because you feel derogatory every time. But so true though, at the same time it is also so, so inspiring :D
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