Board Thread:Roleplay Ideas/@comment-26065062-20160713125226/@comment-27097330-20160727235016

The Lord of Minas Morgul wrote: Tybereous wrote: The Lord of Minas Morgul wrote: He put Tolkien and his creations in a bad light just because he liked another story better. What's the argument about, which one is better, or why the other one is bad? You put Eragon in a bad light just because you thought LotR is better...

He also didn't say anything about LotR being bad.... 1. I'm not putting it in a bad light (mainly because I haven't read them), I criticized how the author could have chosen better character names (because almost every name is extremely similar to names of Tolkien). Then I corrected Minecraftmage's obviously skewed idea of Tolkien's ideas.

2. The way Chaz speaks makes it sound like Tolkien is a bad author, with poorly ought ot creations, and that the only good thing about his works is that he made his world expansive. If I said it that way it was an accident. As I don't have a bias against against Tolkien's creations. In fact I think his world is far more creative than the Inheritance Cycle's. What exactly did I say? The only thing I can think of is my desciption of orcs, which may have showed my distaste for them as characters. It's true, I think they're shallow. As a whole I think most of the villains in LOTR are shallow, or at least not well thought out. (A few exceptions include Saruman, who has a lot of depth. And the Dunlendings, Easterling and Haradrim, which bring up the possibility of Gondorian oppression, though Tolkien doesn't dive into this.) So yes, I called the orcs mindless hordes, and it's true. I don't think this take away from the story too much though, I just wish it was more in depth.