cmsellers wrote:
- For TCSers who write, why do you write?
- Do you have any authors you love you feel are incredibly underrated, and intutions sic about why they're not as popular as you think they should be?
- Why does every slightly geeky person still read LotR around middle school? Is it just because it's part of geek culture, or is there a valid literary reason for it?
- What makes Shakespeare great? (I've heard stories about North Koreans crying when they read translations of his work, so clearly it's not the puns alone.)
Jack Road wrote:
This I think is a trait shared by the older men of epic fantasy. I say men, because I have yet to read an example of epic fantasy written by an elderly woman, though of course it may exist. They start with no immediate interest in telling a story. They are generally men of academia. They world-build. They make the geography and the geography fuels the language, and the language builds the people. They write histories and mythologies. They have family trees and the hundred thousand details of a living breathing world. Then, as they age, they begin to write more novel-format stories in this world. These stories feel so organic because the world they are in is organic.
Knicholas wrote:Can you give some examples beyond Tolkien? I thought again of Guy Gavriel Kay, although he really got his start by helping Christopher Tolkien put together the Silmarillion, and then wrote The Fionavar Tapestry to get it out of his system. Much of his later writings were in a single world. Who else would you include? George RR Martin?
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