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burrahobbit · 10-03-2003, 12:29 PM

The thing is that most Authors don't make up a coherent world that is not quite this world. Most fake worlds are obviously so. Even if you can susspend disbelief when you are reading, it doesn't ever have that certain quality of realness like Tolkien has done. I can believe that Turin existed at one point in my world just the same as I can believe that certain other mythological persons existed in one form or another.

10-03-2003, 12:29 PM	#28
burrahobbit Hidden Spirit Join Date: May 2000 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 1,424	The thing is that most Authors don't make up a coherent world that is not quite this world. Most fake worlds are obviously so. Even if you can susspend disbelief when you are reading, it doesn't ever have that certain quality of realness like Tolkien has done. I can believe that Turin existed at one point in my world just the same as I can believe that certain other mythological persons existed in one form or another. __________________ What's a burrahobbit got to do with my pocket, anyways?