Thread: What other fantasy books do YOU read?
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Old 07-27-2007, 03:11 PM   #621
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Originally Posted by Gil-Galad View Post
i loved Feist's works, and when i read two different fantasy, i don't compare them, i just pretend that i am new to the world and go from there.
Yes, but the things I mentioned are just what makes me unable to do this. As you said, I just pretend that I am new ti the world, but suddenly - "Ha! A balrog! Now what are you doing here?" I can't pretend I haven't seen him before. "Uh-huh, I remember now, this is not the first world I have been to!" And that degrades the world to me, by making it unoriginal, which is quite sad. I can't hope to made the world my home, as I made the Tolkien's, because I know there is something in it that does not come from there.

Just to add, one interesting idea (sort of a mind-probe on Feist)... does that creature have wings? (Personally I think not, there is not any reference, or is it?)
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