Recent content by AvengerofOsiris

I'm sure someone has heard of this novel, but "Arena" (a Magic the Gathering book) was absolutely amazing.

Gwen is HIDEOUS in that show. That may seem shallow, but it is really distracting.

I think a couple of things were "off" about the movies. 1) No Tom Bombadil. He was the one real BIG mystery of the novels. 2) The Council of Elrond should have been longer and they should have discussed more things. 3) Legolas surfing on a shield down a staircase. 4) A Nazgul breaking...

Has anyone been watching this show? I just watched the last episode and I am baffled as to how the KING can only rally about 10 soldiers to take on a group of brigands who seem to outnumber him 4 to 1. Shouldn't it be the other way around?

Do you think it takes away from a SoIaF that he so closely copied the plot from a historical war?

I personally didn't like the books, but at the same time, I wouldn't criticize Paolini because I don't like them. Honestly, who cares if a book is derivative? I respect the guy for not getting a job as an insurance claims adjuster. I'd rather write an "unoriginal" book and make a living doing...

I respectably disagree with you. Just because a story has castles, dragons and the like, doesn't mean that it's not a great story, or that fantasy is stuck in a rut. Hell, how many cop dramas can people watch, and they're all set in the same "time period" or "setting". I think everyone is...

I did some digging and I found out it was the Iron Tower series. Thanks for asking though.

I've often heard that a SoIaF is based off of the War of the Roses, but how closely do they match up? What do these two events have in common?

I am looking for the title of a fantasy book or maybe a series and I was hoping someone here could help me out. It's a book I read a long time ago; the world map resembled Panama (Not precisely), as in it was a narrow strip of land with ocean on the north and south. It was definitely written...

I have to disagree, although I can see how not everyone would. I happen to love detailed fantasy worlds, and I've spent a lot of time reading the back history of Middlearth, for example. I couldn't get enough of it after the Hobbit, and the LoTR trilogy. I've read the Similarion twice (I know...

I agree with all your points, but I was only using Star Trek as an example because I don't know of any Fantasy examples where there have been such blatant contradictions in distances and locations. That could possibly be because I haven't read that many fantasy series, or because I haven't...

Hi, everyone. I'm new here, but I wanted to comment on this topic. I personally think maps are pretty essential in a fantasy story. I'm actually into Fantasy and Sci-Fi, and if you want to keep a story consistent, a map helps a lot. Consider Star Trek (I realize its sci-fi, but bear with...