I think they are well written, and I do agree it was hard to put it down at times. I like the books, the movie was pretty good too. The storyline however is nothing new. I don't want to say it's a ripoff of Battle Royale, but the plot for that movie was kids being taken, put on an island, and...
I myself love Tolkien. The movies are great and fun to watch, and I like the books. Now other's have stated here before that they aren't perfect, which I agree with. But than again, like Ravanna posted before, no stories are perfect. Every story has some plot holes, or at least inconcistenties...
I love to include magic in my stories. It's especially fun to include it in a fight scene, coming up with different spells and what not. However, it's not fun if the magic user has a spell for everything, and can easily escape dangerous situations. It's been repeated several times, but don't...
I haven't come up with mine just yet, but I'm going through a few possibilities. I'm stuck between several guardians that keep watch over the world, one all powerful elemental, or, my favorite, four gods, one from each element. The water one watches over the seas, the earth watches over the...
I have a few questions about what creatures are copyrighted. First I need to know if gnomes are copyrighted to dragonlance. Not garden gnomes, but gnomes that are pretty much like hobbits. Anyone can post here questions like these, but I just started it off with this. I need an answer.
I was bored once and came up with an unusual apacolyptic setting. It's when these aliens have a star system full of rich and vibrant planets, full of life. But they wish to conquer the whole universe, and need slaves to be workers and build up their empire. So they come up with a super virus...
I'm having a little bit of trouble when I describe the houses and rooms in my world. I can't just say a couch, its too modern. What kind of thing's do they have in fantasy stories that are like couches, but fit for the time its in? And also what are they made out of? Velvet, leather? I've been...
I've come up with a new dragon, a tempest dragon. They are very rare, a little bigger than a northern dragon, and are a grey color with mixes of dark blue. But heres the kick, they can only be born during a storm. They live anywhere they can, but mostly in cliffs and high up in mountains. There...
Oh okay. Yeah, dragons in my world are as common as anything else. There not some special ancient thing nobody has seen in hundreds of years, that is pretty cliche.
Haha, I'll write it. But those aren't the only dragons in my story, remember. I mean this part won't be a huge part in my story, but maybe a little side thing. But what were you saying about dragons being cliche?
I would say Tolkien. I mean the original LoTR books dove into such great detail about things it was, well, detailed. He would go on for a chapter explaining the history of a mountain The Fellowship visited. I don't think he dealt with human ills and conditions, someone else would have to answer...