From: nuny@bid.nes   
      
   On Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 6:50:16 AM UTC-8, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   > On 3/4/17 2:34 AM, nuny@bid.nes wrote:   
   > > On Friday, March 3, 2017 at 2:54:34 PM UTC-8, MrAnderson wrote:   
   > >> Ok, so in original variant the humans on Arda are not connected any way to   
   > >> Earth, they are more like... Fantasy humans? You don't see a mention of   
   > >> Earth colonizating the planets in LOTR, Skyrim, Witcher and all that stuf   
   > >> :p   
   > >   
   > >   When I first read LOTR I could accept it as far history that ignored   
   > > traditional Biblical and other similar stuff. I'm too old to buy that now,   
   > > and I *need* a believable backstory so Skyrim and so forth fail to interest   
   > > me.   
   > >   
   > >   I'm one of those guys who needs *something* to suspend my disbelief from.   
   >   
   > 	Seriously? The entirety of fantasy literature is closed to you because   
   > you can't even accept the setting?   
      
     Not the entirety. It's not about the setting, it's about claiming that   
   *human* humans evolved independently on more than one planet. Nuh uh.   
      
     Star Wars did this too. That's not the Milky way, and is all about events "a   
   long time ago" with a multi-ky history behind that. How did humans get there?   
   They didn't evolve there.   
      
   > 	It's an alternate universe where humans evolved on that world instead   
   > of Earth; said universe also has magic as well as our standard physics.   
      
     Okay, you enjoy it all you want. Maybe Mr. Anderson is comfortable with it   
   too, but for me it's in the same "non-consumables" category as okra.   
      
     Now, I have no problem with e. g. Dark Crystal. Those were humanoids, not   
   humans, but as sympathetic as any "real" human.   
      
      
     Mark L. Fergerson   
      
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