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 Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:23 pm
Unless you're referring to the entirety of 'Connavar'. In which case I should inform you that Connavar is an entirely fictional creation of Dave Gemmel's.
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:24 pm
I'm not talking about you.
I'm talking about CW's character in the RP.
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:25 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:26 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:28 pm
Heh. I love it when situations like this occur. People can make themselves look foolish all on their own.
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:30 pm
*shrug* Honest mistake, considering what the topic of the conversation was at that moment. And too many people fail to understand the differences between a lot of the Northern European cultures and peoples of that era.
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:32 pm
Yeah. I doubt people really read a book as old as beowulf and watch a 15 hour opera on a regular basis either. What lore I keep up with, I know very well.
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:36 pm
xD First Beowulf I read was the Wishbone book series. Still don't understand it.
I've read the actual epic tale itself, and understood it well, but the Wishbone series still doesn't make any sense to me.
It was pretty good, but the Iliad trumped it, insofar as epic ancient battle poems go.
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:38 pm
Right.
When 500 pages of dialogue is under your belt, and you realize that less than 1/5th of it really moves the plot, you can share my view.
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:39 pm
That can be descriptive of both tales...
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:41 pm
Not really. Beowulf isn't 500 pages long, 70 tops.
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:41 pm
And damn it, I knew I was thinking of the wrong one when I said Iliad. Iliad was good, but I prefered it's twin, Oddysey.
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:43 pm
I was referring to the fact that a decently sized portion of the tale does nothing whatsoever for the plot, just as Iliad and Oddysey.
And it's over 3,000 lines, so it really depends on what form of book you use. Most handheld novels (what the ********, hand-held novels? You get the idea) have around 50 lines a page, so that's 600 pages right there.
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:45 pm
Everyone likes the Odyssey better.
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:46 pm
I don't know..
There was less talk proportionally in Beowulf though. I mean, he arrives, eats dinner, tells a story how he beats a monster in the ocean, and from then until the slaying of grendel of his mother, all dialogue is necessary and minimal. Time passes, and he's killed by a dragon, and the rest is blarg.
Perhaps its just that its harder to summarize than the iliad that makes me enjoy it more.
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