>>239386that is kinda advanced answer.. it comes down to personal preference, but personal preference is what i wanted to ask about.
your method of writing and then writing again is interesting, but its hard to even get started without comprehensive plan. its like in programming, its easier to define constants first rather than afterwards.
having a evil race for the story sake can sound lot like racism. in tolkien it is the fact that orcs have eastern style weaponry and appearances, that is because they are to some degree influenced by mongols and huns. But because the way its written, we are to imagine that it was written from perspective of free people, so it makes sense that evil is just blatantly evil, because that is how opposing force would look to you. you wouldnt necessarily portray your enemies as just doing what they are supposed to do.
there is a russian guy who wrote the events of war of the ring, from mordor perspective. as them being the good guys. its written from a perspective that lord of the rings was just propaganda, and they were just kinda jealous of mordor due to it being industrial superpower, or something like that.. there is english translation of it online, but its not a very well written book, at least the translation isnt, but the idea is interesting..
in finnish oral tradition, there are stories about war, but its not about good vs bad. for people to read kalevala some might say that the louhi (matriarch of the pohjola) was the main villain, but if you read it carefully you realize that in the end she isnt evil, she is just and keeps her promise, and her motivations are about protecting her people. So she knows magic and curses, but does she use them for malevolence? no, she only uses them for justified purposes.
then on the other side you see all these heroes like väinämöinen, ilmarinen, lemminkäinen and etc. But they are morally ambiguous, especially lemminkäinen. He is very selfish and violent. We love him because he is entertaining warrior and gets into trouble, but it can easily be argued that he is not a good person in modern sense.
you dont really have to comment everything i say, im just thinking about question of good vs evil and different approaches to it. you say there is no evil, which i think you are kinda right.
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