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Story Themes with Benjamin Cook

Worldcasting Podcast

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The Hobbit and the Lord the Rings

I see a lot of fantasy worlds for instance that look like fantasy toy boxes because people will see Tolkien made this amazing language in Sanderson made these amazing magic systems. Those are the things that you know speak to them that they find so interesting and so they're gravitating toward all these things as a way to make their world interesting and fully fledged. But I feel like for Tolkien and for Sanderson yeah those things are awesome that's fine but the reason I read Tolkien was definitely not for the language systems when I read the Lord the Rings. You have to be able to accept that that's okay to come later it's not imperative to your process that that stuff comes out before you actually

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