Are You Writing Serious Fantasy?

[Thinhyandoiel]

I use the LotR soundtrack every now and again. And bagpipes have a melancholic tone to them that I LOVE to write too. (Heh...yes, my word for the day is melancholic...^.^)

Foil characters. They give so much to the development of one of the themes of my story. Friendship. Also, they're great for comedic relief. Tolkien used Legolas and Gimli for this, and I thought it worked great. My two characters are actually two Elves. One is a scholar, the other is a warrior. It's the warrior that's driving me nuts. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] They're both of the same gender, and their first argument was over parchment. Yes...parchment. That one wrote itself, and I laughed so hard when I re-read it. "That ones a keeper" I says to meself! ^.^ Heheh. Anyone else have foils in their story? As Saxony Tarn so aptly put it, two North ends of a magnet (I like that one! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img])