From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 3/4/17 7:00 PM, nuny@bid.nes wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   	An uncountable infinity many-worlds; literally anything can happen, and   
   does in SOME universe. The author chooses the universe where whatever   
   setup he or she wanted was the one that happened.   
      
   	In the Star Wars universe, there's nothing saying humans evolved   
   independently on many planets, just that they're ON many planets. Yes,   
   you have to do a handwave if you really want it to be THIS universe as   
   well, but it's not necessary for Star Wars itself.   
      
   	In the Trekverse, it turns out that ONE species seeded a lot of the   
   human(oid) races around the galaxy.   
      
   	In mine, Earth is where it started, and all human and humanoid races   
   throughout all the infinite universes derive from that particular Earth,   
   partly through some wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey events.   
      
      
      
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