[ SECRET POST #3238 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3238 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Writers: World-building and character designing

[(Anonymous)]

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But, see, I agree that a dragon in a cornfield would jar with the rest of his work. But I think the problem is that it is a tonal inconsistency - it does not work aesthetically with the rest of what he is trying to do. The problem is not that dragons in cornfields would revolutionize agriculture in the Shire; the problem is simply that it is not Middle-Earth and it does not make sense for the story as a story.

Re: Writers: World-building and character designing

[tabaqui]

And to me, it's because it's a dragon in a cornfield, when there is nothing else remotely *like* a dragon in a cornfield anywhere else.

So, however we arrive at it, we both arrive at the same conclusion. Dragons in Bilbo's cornfield (which, i know, he didn't have) do not work.

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Re: Writers: World-building and character designing

[(Anonymous)]

Well, but the reason it doesn't work is important when it comes to judging other instances of things.

For instance, take a knight in armor swimming through a river. To me, that's only wrong if it doesn't make sense tonally for the story - so if, making up an example completely hypothetically, you were writing some kind of heroic fairy-tale-esque romance drawing on things like the chansons and chivalric fable, perhaps that makes sense tonally. So that's where there is a difference.