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[dragonrazor]

Oh thank you, dragon kin for expanding. You just made me more intelligent.



I like his one offs (no series) as well as his 4 part Earth stories that follow one particular family from BC to the future...welll written and awesomely done.

Just got into him a few years ago. Not familiar with any of his other work. Always used to read Isaac, Michael, Stephen, things like that. And Dragonlance.

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

DRAGONLANCE!!!!! *happy snoopy dance*

I read RavenLoft too...Hmm and most of the books from white wolf publishing based on the games (V:tM, W:tA and Changeling)

 

[dragonrazor]

DRAGONLANCE!!!!! *happy snoopy dance*

I read RavenLoft too...Hmm and most of the books from white wolf publishing based on the games (V:tM, W:tA and Changeling)

Aside from the stories, the real draw in Dragonlance is Kitiara Uth-Matar....yummy...

 

[Drunken_Angel]

dragonlance!! Seriously one of the best fantasy setting novels I've ever read. complex characters, epic plot. I still want a topknot

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

Aside from the stories, the real draw in Dragonlance is Kitiara Uth-Matar....yummy...

perv!!

dragonlance!! Seriously one of the best fantasy setting novels I've ever read. complex characters, epic plot. I still want a topknot

QFT!!

 

[dragonrazor]

you love it.

 

[Vail_Indigo]

Lolita cosplay...hot or not?

 

[Veroe]

I read fellowship of the ring for english class in highschool (I was the only one in the class who read it to the finish. The teacher only tested from the first half of the book which was so cheap-if I endured the whole of Tolkien's fumbling amatuerish execution of epic fantasy storytelling they should've been forced to as well) Anyhow I read Dragonlance a few weeks later as pleasure reading and I said to Prof. Tolkien's ghost "That is how you do it." When I finished those books...which is ironic since without LoTR there would never have been any Dragonlance.

 

[Vail_Indigo]

I read fellowship of the ring for english class in highschool (I was the only one in the class who read it to the finish. The teacher only tested from the first half of the book which was so cheap-if I endured the whole of Tolkien's fumbling amatuerish execution of epic fantasy storytelling they should've been forced to as well) Anyhow I read Dragonlance a few weeks later as pleasure reading and I said to Prof. Tolkien's ghost "That is how you do it." When I finished those books...which is ironic since without LoTR there would never have been any Dragonlance.

well, you have to really appreciate whining and moaning about missing 'Elevensies' to get into JRR

 

[dragonrazor]

I read fellowship of the ring for english class in highschool (I was the only one in the class who read it to the finish. The teacher only tested from the first half of the book which was so cheap-if I endured the whole of Tolkien's fumbling amatuerish execution of epic fantasy storytelling they should've been forced to as well) Anyhow I read Dragonlance a few weeks later as pleasure reading and I said to Prof. Tolkien's ghost "That is how you do it." When I finished those books...which is ironic since without LoTR there would never have been any Dragonlance.

Spoken like a Harry Pothead fan.

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

I swear I have a new book thing now~comic writers who do sarcastic riffs on those types of writings (Craig Shaw Gardener~The Magic Cycle, 1-6. One can never forget Terry Pratchett and his evil little novels of Disc World, nor can one forget to add the Hitchhiker series...and the Detective series by the same author, the impeccable Douglas Adams)

 

[Veroe]

Spoken like a Harry Pothead fan.

Actually I haven't read Harry Potter...seen the movies, and that's about it. They were good, but not fantastic.

 

[dragonrazor]

Spoken like a Harry Pothead fan.

Actually I haven't read Harry Potter...seen the movies, and that's about it. They were good, but not fantastic.

In all fairness, however, what most people don't realize about LotR is that it's a book series for teenagers. However, the Silmarillion, which has a section including the events outlined in LotR (which is actually FOUR books, not Three...The Hobbit's full title is The Hobbit or There And Back Again: Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings) is very much written for adults. The idiots at the university library didn't realize that. I had to call their attention to it when I found it in the children's section.

 

[Veroe]

Don't get me wrong, Razor. When it comes to world-building no one, absolutely no one comes close to Tolkien. When it comes to making fantasy languages none come close to him-after all he was a Cambridge Don of philology. When it came to knowing about the general historical period he was modeling LOTR off of few come close.

My only gripe is that it took Peter Jackson to turn his story into entertainment for me rather than a chore I was forced to endure for a grade.

Though to be fair I resented being forced to read (something I do on my own of my own free will thank you very much) anything for a grade alot, Like if it had been Dragonlance instead of Fellowship I would probably have found something to gripe about it too.

 

[dragonrazor]

Don't get me wrong, Razor. When it comes to world-building no one, absolutely no one comes close to Tolkien. When it comes to making fantasy languages none come close to him-after all he was a Cambridge Don of philology. When it came to knowing about the general historical period he was modeling LOTR off of few come close.

My only gripe is that it took Peter Jackson to turn his story into entertainment for me rather than a chore I was forced to endure for a grade.

Though to be fair I resented being forced to read (something I do on my own of my own free will thank you very much) anything for a grade alot, Like if it had been Dragonlance instead of Fellowship I would probably have found something to gripe about it too.

heh. Try watching the original 70s animated LotR trilogy. Then compare the effects and such with Jackson's babies.

 

[Veroe]

Heh, been there done that, Razor.

They were my first ever exposure to LOTR, and there's not much comparison really. The Jackson films stand atop the pinnacle of a woefully small genre of films. If only the studios would see the success of those films and figure they could do that with the other great sagas of that genre in the bookstore.

 

[dragonrazor]

Heh, been there done that, Razor.

They were my first ever exposure to LOTR, and there's not much comparison really. The Jackson films stand atop the pinnacle of a woefully small genre of films. If only the studios would see the success of those films and figure they could do that with the other great sagas of that genre in the bookstore.

Or with longstanding anime series (Mobile Suit Gundam....)

 

[Veroe]

Or with longstanding anime series (Mobile Suit Gundam....)

Naw, I actually think that's best left for cartoons. It works best in the medium of animation, live-action mobile suits I think will look lame like the live action travesty of Dragonball evolution made the transformed Goku into a lame werewolf instead of giant monkey. Now, that's not to say a full-length animated feature of Gundam won't be AWESOME. Maybe CGI feature- that'd be cool too.

You know something to make people here in the states finally wake up to the fact that cartoons aren't just for kids.

 

[dragonrazor]

Naw, I actually think that's best left for cartoons. It works best in the medium of animation, live-action mobile suits I think will look lame like the live action travesty of Dragonball evolution made the transformed Goku into a lame werewolf instead of giant monkey. Now, that's not to say a full-length animated feature of Gundam won't be AWESOME. Maybe CGI feature- that'd be cool too.

You know something to make people here in the states finally wake up to the fact that cartoons aren't just for kids.

Actually, I saw a live action made for TV movie called G Saviour that made me wish they'd had Peter Jackson's budget and directing (and better rendering). For what it was, it was so good that James Cameron's Avatar looks like a five year old made it in comparison. (not a direct comparison, mind you, because of how low the budget for a made for TV movie is). And there are numerous full length animated flicks of Gundam. Char's Counterattack, F91, Endless Waltz....there are others but not all of them have made it stateside.

 

[Drunken_Angel]

A truth or dare thread, has it been done?

 

[Veroe]

hmm, I don't think so, DA.

 

[Vail_Indigo]

too little sleep
but brain working in overdrive
I want my SRP peeps to all show up and then we can do a massive writing blitz all day!!

 

[yeishia]

A truth or dare thread, has it been done?

It was done in the srp area, but with only 5 people and did not last long. I am sure it would do well in the Lounge

 

[Vail_Indigo]

I'm not sure what truth or dare online would be like

 

[zydrate]

I love my new mouse