• Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
        17·
        2 个月前

        Taking real world history and adapting it into your world is also cool but the meme still looks down on GRRM.

      • early_riser@piefed.socialEnglish
        8·
        2 个月前

        I read a quote somewhere that “creativity is the art of hiding your influences.” The scene in The Hobbit where Bilbo steals the goblet from Smaug is yoinked straight out of Beowulf. There’s a good reason Germanic mythology sounds so Tolkienesque to someone who first read LOTR. I don’t think there’s any shame in that. Nihil sub sole novum.

        My own worldbuilding can be summed up as “That sounds cool, but it would be even cooler with mechs.”

        • Limerance@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          2 个月前

          Tolkien took several names straight from the Edda. Gandalf is the most famous, but several dwarven names as well.

      • starlinguk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 个月前

        I’m not looking down on it, but other people are looking down on other writers for doing the same thing.

    • emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      2 个月前

      So did pretty much every myth and legend. And religions for that matter. That’s how stories are built, it’s putting the pieces together in a new interesting way that makes a good one.