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Originally Posted by teh603
I'll be honest, I'm considering resetting my fantasy world to something more Tolkein-esque. Given how I've been stuck at one sale for a year or two, it can't hurt, can it?
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Sometimes, I can't abide another Elf that wants to go West...
Also, I intend to majorily put my world upside down, by having people with Asian sounding names in the West, people with Greek sounding names in the North, and others with Celtic names somehwere around the location of Japan.
I think many fantasy worlds bear too much resemblance to our own world, with regard to locations and customs. In a fantasy-world, an Asian-like culture does NOT have to be in the East, for example, black people don't all HAVE to come from the south... and so on.
Also, many worlds lean too much on Tolkien. Elves don't HAVE to be in the West, don't HAVE to have their own home to which they want to return all the time (even further West), Dwarves don't NEED to be stone-loving, hammer-wielding fighters that live under mountains.