Are You Writing Serious Fantasy?

[Eol]

But what is the streotype?
Eol mentions elves. Tolkien did not "invent" elves.

Maika: I did not intend to say that Tolkien invented "elves". I am aware of the mythical elves that you speak of. I suppose what I had meant to speak of and was not specified that Tolkien's creations became the stereotype( Tall, blonde and dark haired, fair eyes). People continued to view that as the norm which has become a cliche. That may be diffenent in Europe, I do not know. This should be evident in literature of non-Tolkien relation.

Also to sum my statements to childishness, I had no such intention. Unless you meant something else by your statement?


There had been people saying(not in Barrow-downs, I hope) that their stories were purely original when the plot was genaric and bland and their creatures were a cookie cutter form( Elves were all blonde, fair eyes and tall with attitude that they were superior and dwarves are harsh and gruff, and the halflings...).This is non-Tolkien, mind you.

That was mostly to sum up what I had to do because I had started out that way because of poorer influence( had not really gotten into Tolkien until the past two years). I just wanted to take my experiance of five years of intensive writing and make suggestions to help people assess their work. Believe or not, people are very bias about their work and a great deal of the time will not admit their writting is not as creative as first conceived.

I suppose in the end, nothing can be purely original. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[ August 09, 2002: Message edited by: Eol ]