http://ravenswept.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] ravenswept.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] kippurbird 2009-08-25 10:44 pm (UTC)

Sorry, didn't mean they'd start out "light", just that you'd go a different route then most do when dealing with elves. Like Paolini...

Haven't read any/enough Pratchett (I feel like I lost some geekcred saying that) so I can't identify the to the elves. Gargoyles I do know, so yeah, okay I definitely see where you're going/coming from with that. Three Sisters all the way!

Bomastic visual...*trying to think of better explanation* like the difference between Harry Potter putting on the Invisiblity Cloak, and Dumbledore and Voldemort's duel in the fifth movie.

I haven't read any of your work, so I can't judge on that. Your reviews are pretty spot on, so you're right that you have visual prowess. But as a fantasy buff, you and those like you (myself included) read enough of magic to wonder about turning the tables so technology is the fantasic. To the layman, why would they want to read about a world where something they already know about is what that world considers amazing, when the magic, something that isn't real so they want to be told about it, is what fascinates them?

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