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Supernatural Over-representation
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#31
RE: Supernatural Over-representation
July 9, 2020 at 9:29 am
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#32
RE: Supernatural Over-representation
July 9, 2020 at 10:30 am
@BrianSoddingBoru4 Discworld was good and I applaud Sir Terry for his take. Potter fans also have the type of elves in old german tales. Anyone a swedish horror fan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_(2011_film) would be good. I haven't seen it but it looks interesting.
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#33
RE: Supernatural Over-representation
July 9, 2020 at 11:42 am
(July 9, 2020 at 10:30 am)tackattack Wrote: @BrianSoddingBoru4 Discworld was good and I applaud Sir Terry for his take. Potter fans also have the type of elves in old german tales. Anyone a swedish horror fan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_(2011_film) would be good. I haven't seen it but it looks interesting.

Just to make sure we’re not at cross purposes, I wasn’t bagging on Tolkien (huge fan), simply pointing out that when people think ‘elves’ they go right to Tolkien’s version.  And this is fine as far as it goes. But a lot of people seem unaware that elves vary pretty widely depending on the culture that created them. 

I’m happy (but unsurprised) that you’re not one of those people.

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#34
RE: Supernatural Over-representation
July 9, 2020 at 1:27 pm
(July 9, 2020 at 11:42 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(July 9, 2020 at 10:30 am)tackattack Wrote: @BrianSoddingBoru4 Discworld was good and I applaud Sir Terry for his take. Potter fans also have the type of elves in old german tales. Anyone a swedish horror fan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_(2011_film) would be good. I haven't seen it but it looks interesting.

Just to make sure we’re not at cross purposes, I wasn’t bagging on Tolkien (huge fan), simply pointing out that when people think ‘elves’ they go right to Tolkien’s version.  And this is fine as far as it goes. But a lot of people seem unaware that elves vary pretty widely depending on the culture that created them. 

I’m happy (but unsurprised) that you’re not one of those people.

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#35
RE: Supernatural Over-representation
July 10, 2020 at 2:17 pm
Well, creatures from Islamic mythology are underused. Like they could have used Buraq in the romantic comedies in 80s with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan riding on that flying donkey.

And in another movie Tom Hanks is a jinn exorcist who is trying to exorcise a Jinn from Meg Ryan but falls in love with Jinn inside her, and gets ostracized from Jinn exorcist society. But then, after having a conversation with a Persian rug on his wall (because Muslims believe in magical rugs), he discovers that Jinns are also Allah's creation and that it's ok that the Jinn is in Meg Ryan because women are lower beings according to Quran anyway, so it's ok that he loves that Jinn.
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RE: Supernatural Over-representation
July 18, 2020 at 10:09 am (This post was last modified: July 18, 2020 at 10:10 am by Foxaèr.)
Started writing. The first chapter introduced the Incubus. The second chapter introduced an elf. It's going good so far. The elf unfortunately isn't a bloody Drow, but it's not going to be an innocent can't do anything Tolkien elf either.
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