 | | Re: Stuff (Was: some other stuff)
|
|
(...) Sure. I can see the point if you do this and you're gonna use it multiple times *within a single document* (lawyers do it all the time!), and you can even do it using a glossary. What I detest is people who use an acronym *ONCE* and follow it (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: Plagarism in Fantasy Novels? (was Re: Harry Potter?)
|
|
(...) I couldn't finish it either. I threw it against the wall. It had such a marketing hype from Ballantine along with the Hildebrandt illustrations, I felt betrayed that either would have anything to do with it. (...) I am a leper. I feel sorry (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: Plagarism in Fantasy Novels? (was Re: Harry Potter?)
|
|
(...) I thought the word "orc" is derived from the workers around an orc-pile, i.e. a pile of dead bodies, as referred to in Beowulf. Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: Plagarism in Fantasy Novels? (was Re: Harry Potter?)
|
|
(...) Middle-earth, hyphenated, small e. Tolkien had a number of idiosynchratic spellings, such as dwarves. Orc is derived from Ogre, which is why you see fantasy games can get away with refering to orcs, but never Hobbits. Bruce (who got away with (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: Plagarism in Fantasy Novels? (was Re: Harry Potter?)
|
|
(...) Lord Dunsany would be another, Fritz Leiber, Robert E. Howard, though none in quite the same style. (...) Lin Carter (terrible author, but great editor whom revived such authors as Eddison and Dunsany) very specifically reviled The Sword of (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
