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taotrooper) wrote2005-06-08 06:19 pm
taotrooper) wrote2005-06-08 06:19 pm
Entry tags:
Religious systems and fiction
First of all, a question. Is Tolkien's "The Book of Lost Tales" any good, truth to be told? I don't want to spend my money in it just because I'm curious about that Eriol, and then to find myself bored out. Be honest.
Meanwhile, I found myself building a huge part of Clow country's religion and ecclesiastic system in order to write some Touya/Yuki plot bunnies. I'm not taking this slightly: I even read a long and tedious essay at the Britannica macropedia about old and modern religions and their classification.
However... do you think people could take my take on their religion (sorry about redundance) in a bad way? When it comes to religion, people get offended too easily and I'm scared someone flames me for making one up. However, it's impossible and stupid to adapt an existing, real-life religion from our world. Not even myths from ancient civilizations.
Also, I'm doing it as CLAMPic as possible, with dualism, natural forces, twins, magic, crossovers and so on. The main gods are not even my creation, mind you. (don't ask me about the main gods, because I'm not going to answer; you'll have to wait)
Besides, there's a 0.5% of probability CLAMP will contradict me in canon. Because... why would they lose their valuable S+S quality time in explaining how does each world work?
Meanwhile, I found myself building a huge part of Clow country's religion and ecclesiastic system in order to write some Touya/Yuki plot bunnies. I'm not taking this slightly: I even read a long and tedious essay at the Britannica macropedia about old and modern religions and their classification.
However... do you think people could take my take on their religion (sorry about redundance) in a bad way? When it comes to religion, people get offended too easily and I'm scared someone flames me for making one up. However, it's impossible and stupid to adapt an existing, real-life religion from our world. Not even myths from ancient civilizations.
Also, I'm doing it as CLAMPic as possible, with dualism, natural forces, twins, magic, crossovers and so on. The main gods are not even my creation, mind you. (don't ask me about the main gods, because I'm not going to answer; you'll have to wait)
Besides, there's a 0.5% of probability CLAMP will contradict me in canon. Because... why would they lose their valuable S+S quality time in explaining how does each world work?