Recent content by Eandorn

Well I think it was the famous literary critic Harold Bloom who ones wrote that any literature striving to be great, would have to write itself "up against" the great literature of old. What he meant, I think, was that literature has to be aware of the great lines of literary history and...

This a very interesting discussion. I tend to find very masculine characters kind of boring. Often they become "flat" if they are never confronted with anything that might challenge their masculine way of seeing life and the world. Don't get me wrong, it's not that I think masculinity should...

Thank you all :) Well the project is high fantasy so it involves some world-building (could one not argue that all literature draws on world-building? :) ), though at the moment I'm more into plot and character-developing and I'm hoping that some of my world will sort of build itself as the...

Hello all! I've been following this forum for a couple of days now and figured I'd register, hence this introduction. I've been a fan of fantasy for many years now, mainly the high fantasy, epic kind of literature in the mold of Tolkien, Martin, Lewis etc. though I enjoy other kinds of...