[ SECRET POST #2637 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2637 ⌋

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Comments

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, you are proposing with your hobbit analogy that we should believe one single POC hobbit can spring up in a community of all-white hobbits? You need to make the Hobbit community mixed race for that to be logical, and then your "One adventurous misfit" idea stops being about his skin tone because most of the other of his skin tone are still normal non-adventurous hobbits.

Besides, Tolkien did give race divides amongst the Hobbits, but unfortunately they are the reverse of the one you wish - Frodo comes from the whitest end of Hobbit skin tones, while the unadventurous majority are of the darker skin tones.

[(Anonymous)]

That would actually be fairly easy, make them adopted, just like Frodo. Or Magic changes coloration, I mean, no one bats an eye at the fantasy genetics like girls are exact copies of their mother and boys are exact copies of their father http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenderEqualsBreed or it just happens sometimes.

Part of being creative means problem solving. Everyone knows all knights were men, so no one can ever write female knights ever. Most royal families had rules about marriage and who could marry who, so writing about a princess falling in love with anyone but the appropriate male picked out by her wouldn't be realistic. Dragons didn't exist at all, so lets leave them out altogether. Except that's not true anymore, because people went against the current tropes and established new ones and you can have a dragon appear and the reader will nod and accept it, but that wouldn't have happened if someone hadn't sat down a long time ago and said "You know what this story needs? A big flaming lizard."

Going with established tropes is easy, because you don't have to put in the effort. It's the fanfic of writing, I can say they're an Elf and people are going to pull up the template without any more work on my part. I can say the main character's name is the hobbit Frodo in my fanfic, and people are going to pull up their standard Frodo template.

"But... but I'm a writer! You want me to explain, and world build, and give reasons why this is this way, and that is that way? I'm supposed to do my job?! That's hard!" Yup. That's what set Tolkien apart and why he's considered so influential, he sat down and did all the work to make a world with magic, and he borrowed and stole and put his own views in and he wrote. Instead of just going "And then they spoke another language" he made the languages, and made the history. Was it perfect? No, but he didn't let "But you'd have to explain how..." stop him.