[Lindale]

Doing a sort of comparison between Tolkien, Barrie, and Lucas's respective works? Let's do a quick comparative lit thingy (my degree!) here. All are fantasy, but not like Garcia Marquez's magical realism that had direct historical sources.

Tolkien had great influence from the myths and stories he loved since he was a kid; apparently, so did Barrie, but I do not think Barrie went all the way into studying cultures and other myths and language to create Neverland. Arda, was, well, Arda, a universe of its own with its own Creation myth and histories, its rich histories gathered from its Ages. And Lucas. Lucas, he admitted (sorry I don't have a link, can somebody...) having Tolkieny influences (I think there's a thread or two or more that can be helpful here, Tolkien and Star Wars stuff), like Palpatine=Morgoth and Vader=Sauron. Lucas created, like, two generations, two trilogies. Tolkien, he had Arda. Barrie, just a generation, just Peter Pan, a sort of escapism from the mundane and common. Not that TOlkien and Lucas did not do so either, but hey. They expanded. A galaxy with its own races and aliens and its Senate and Empire, and a Universe with its 'the One', its Guardians, its Children.

Given more time, I wonder, what could Lucas have done with his galaxy? Not that I'm expecting another Creation myth or something, but what? Pity there's only two trilogies.

Now the trilogies... hmm... The first trilogy had brilliant plots but not advanced technology, and it almost seemed like a joke the part that the spear-bearing Ewoks fought the Clones. THe second? Brilliant effects... not so brilliant, but brilliant nonetheless, plots.