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⌈ Secret Post #3238 ⌋

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Re: Writers: World-building and character designing

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I guess I'm not explaining myself very clearly and you're very intent on making the magical/fantasy parts of these books the test for 'real' or 'not real', which in my mind isn't the point.

No, I think tests for "real" and "not real" are completely irrelevant. They reduce stories to little more than an accounting of trivial details, which strikes me as being even less adept a form of literary analysis than fundamentalist readings of scripture. Lord of the Rings works as a story, in which various characters confront various forms of temptation and despair in a world in which grace matters. Very little about the world of Middle Earth makes sense unless you assume that this conflict has meaning.

Fantasy isn't, and shouldn't be primarily historical. Tolkien was emulating a body of literature that was more moral than historical. So do many other authors in the field.