Daniel
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Commented on Popcorn Time
I know what the Royal Assent is. I was inquiring about the Royal Asset which you mentioned. Like I said, seems by rights the most important Royal Asset is the Crown, but maybe it's England itself? :-)...
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Commented on Popcorn Time
the Brexit Bill passing parliament and due to get the Royal Asset this Thursday I'm behind on Britishisms. What's THE royal asset? The crown? Or some darker innuendo?...
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Commented on Magic, ecospeak and genre distinctions
I'd say Dune is classic ecofantasy....
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Commented on In defence of Traditional (Eurocentric Quasi-Medieval) Fantasy: #3 It's the Archetypes, silly!
Regarding the gender of characters not being important, I was blown away recently by Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch books. Also relevant is Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness. Why aren't there (many) more books like this? Sci fi (unlike...
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Commented on In defence of Traditional (Eurocentric Quasi-Medieval) Fantasy: #3 It's the Archetypes, silly!
Tolkien always portrayed wolves as bad, and mirroring them, dogs as good. So for instance Huan, Hound of the Gods. In his earliest writings, though, he portrayed cats as the evil counterparts of dogs, rather than wolves. So in the...
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Commented on In defence of Traditional (Eurocentric Quasi-Medieval) Fantasy: #3 It's the Archetypes, silly!
Isn't it at least partly true that all these stories are the reason people think in terms of these archetypes? The causation isn't all one way....
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Commented on In defence of Traditional (Eurocentric Quasi-Medieval) Fantasy: #3 It's the Archetypes, silly!
Sorry, that should be "Black Numenoreans". In case you go Googling....
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Commented on In defence of Traditional (Eurocentric Quasi-Medieval) Fantasy: #3 It's the Archetypes, silly!
Never mind the Orcs, there were plenty of evil & corrupted Men in Tolkien's works who were, yes, all identifiable by being dark-skinned, sallow, squint-eyed, etc. The one exception being the Evil or Dark Numenoreans, who were their colonial overlords....