Re: How to avoid being a Tolkien clone
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 26, 2001, 10:16 |
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At 20:31 2001-05-25 -0500, Danny Wier wrote:
>I feel like I'm ripping off JRR, and I've
>been trying to find a name for the Orcs (who have no real native language but
>speak a crude form of English). I've thought of Goblins, Ogres, Thugs,
>Cavemen,
>_homo erectus_ revived...
IMHO _Goblin_ is probably the most "neutral" English word for this kind of
creature. Even JRRT himself used it as the English translation of _Orc,
Orch, Orko_.
/BP 8^)>
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