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- From: mvoorhis@granite.WPI.EDU (Michael C Voorhis)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
- Subject: Re: ME maps
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 19:19:31 GMT
- Organization: RSUC -- Russell Street UNIX & Caffeine
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- In article <6169@naucse.cse.nau.edu> wew@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Bill Wilson) writes:
- >As
- >one of their authors (Greater Harad and Nazgul's Citadel), I
- >attempted to recreate a portion of Tolkien's world through a work of
- >my own and since I picked an area that was outside of LoTR, I
- >hoped to be able to expand Tolkien's mythos.
-
- So you're expanding a mythos? What prevents people from `expanding' other
- mythos, than? Let me make an example to illustrate the weirdness of this.
- Say there exists a company to expand biblical legend.
-
- If I want to know how tough Solomon or Moses really was I can buy a product
- from XYZ company and find out the facts since XYZ company is in the business
- of `expanding' Biblical legend? Sounds kind of weird, doesn't it?
-
- Once the legendry has been written, one can only speculate... this is the
- point I make. If you claim only to speculate, that's fine! But if you
- claim to be expanding legends that are established, you're on thin ice...
- no pun intended.
-
- What you do as an author for ICE is not an expansion of middle-earth legend.
- It is speculation based on existing middle earth legends. I understand that
- ICE is a game-playing company, but I don't think that they should claim to be
- expanding the legends of middle earth... what they do is make games that
- overlay the facts... and unfortunately from the messages that some have
- posted to this group, we know that this speculation is interpreted by some
- as fact. I find that unfortunate; I have nothing against ICE's activities
- otherwise...
-
- Mike.
-
-