@TheBarbarienne @NMamatas And yet how much totally weird shit is there in LotR that's never fully explained?
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Replying to @arthur_affect
@arthur_affect Eventually it's fully explained as his notes and such are published, but yep, not in the book itself!@NMamatas2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @TheBarbarienne
@TheBarbarienne@NMamatas Ha, well, notes are something different. The notes are fragmentary and self contradictory1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
@arthur_affect@NMamatas Yep. But alas, they have led so many to opine that the writer must know 900% more than she puts on the page.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @TheBarbarienne
@TheBarbarienne@arthur_affect The whole notion of "worldbuilding" is bizarre. As if people even know how this world works.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @NMamatas
@NMamatas@arthur_affect THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS. I get not having completely stupid things. But lawsy, writers take it too far.4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @TheBarbarienne
@TheBarbarienne@NMamatas Ambiguity? Internal contradictions? I dunno, it's what was in the book1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
@arthur_affect@NMamatas Just like Earth history books. Language changes, editors excise politically inconvenient things...2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @TheBarbarienne
@TheBarbarienne@NMamatas The thing w "magic systems" is that the reason RL ppl believe in magic even though it doesn't work is uncertainty1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
@arthur_affect@TheBarbarienne Yes fantasy "magic systems" are just technologies. Nothing like how magic "works".2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@NMamatas @TheBarbarienne The closest analogue to "magic" should be social "rules" -- they kind of work but are always uncertain
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