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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2022-06-05 02:46 pm

[ SECRET POST #5630 ]


⌈ Secret Post #5630 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2022-06-05 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd rather have the epicness and magical mysticism of a Tolkien knock off, personally speaking. Where my elves at?
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[personal profile] philstar22 2022-06-05 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I like both types of fantasy. All types really. But if a Tolkien knockoff is well done or at least interesting, I'm very down for it. It is just that a lot of times they end up really flat and boring and missing the things that make Tolkien actually good.

But that can be said of a lot of dark fantasy too. Everyone wants to copy the popular of the moments. There are lots of ASOIAF copies that are really bad too.

(Anonymous) 2022-06-05 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
oh god no. I'm part of a Tolkien LARP group that has been around since the 80s and some of them have extremely large collections of Tolkien knock-off books. They're ALL TERRIBLE. Just having elves and dwarves does not make a good story, if anything it absolutely detracts because someone was trying to push all the Tolkien buttons hoping it would work and it literally never does.

(I know because said group members kept loaning me books/reccing books in that vein and holy shit I'm still angry about it 15 years after the last one I threw across the room)

(Anonymous) 2022-06-06 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, the trashier the better for me. Leave no cliche unused, and I'll be happy.