Ah, I forgot about lord vader, that is a good point :D.
Again though, it proves the point that just because an idea is general, you
can use it in a new and distinctive way without plagerism.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Mapping, item collecting and puzzles in games
Hi Dark,
The term "Dark Lord" is pretty generic all things considered. Darth
Vader, for example, is nothing like Voldemort and Sauron yet like many
Sith Lords is given the title Dark Lord. So that in of itself is too
generic to be considered a parallel between stories.
Ditto for magic items. Fantasy stories usually have some kind of magic
item that is considered to be evil or will make the user evil over
time. It really comes back to that old belief that absolute power
corrupts a person absolutely. Its one of those moral lessons that has
been passed down from generation to generation through story form.
Cheers!
On 8/13/12, dark <[email protected]> wrote:
I agree on tolkien being the ultimate in fantasy literature and world
creation, though again with the horcrux and the ring I don't think there
is
really a paralell, sinse both are part of the more general concept of
dangerous magical objects with some degree of sentiencewhich this goes
right
back to griek or naus mythology.
Indeed, Nordic myths had the ring of the neibelung (sorry if I'm mangling
spelling), which was not Richard vargna's invention, and griek myths had
the
ring of gorgias, a ring that would make it's wearer invisible and thus
outside of all moral responsability, so would be bound to corrupt them.
So Again, both tolkien's ring and the idea of a horcrux I see more
asvariations on a central concept, than direct copies of anything.
Likewise, both voldemort and sauron use the title "the dark lord" (as in
fact does morgoth in the silmarillion), but neither can be said to be a
copy
sinse that title is more a general description of a powerfull evil ruler,
and the two characters are extremely different.
if however someone wrote a book with a dark lord who lived in a black
tower,
was never seen and most of who's power was contained in a magical object
that he was searching for, or a dark lord who was an undead sorcerer
who's
soul had been split into peaces, ---- well then you could probably say
originality was lacking.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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