/lit/ - Literature

What's with all this fascination for lore and worldbuilding in Fantasy? To me a story is all about characters and shedding light on different parts of human nature, and yes, worldbuilding and *deepest lore* can help along with that, but i see a lot of young writers focusing almost exclusively on the static part of a story. My problem isn't when it is sprinkled throughout a story and doesn't track off the dynamic bits but lets the reader figure it out in their own mind, but it bothers the shit out of me when people just drop a block of expositions that feels like a geography lesson for a place that doesn't exist. A lot of normies gobble up lore videos on youtube and character studies are pretty obscure.

Tolkiens Legendarium was real history, he learnt it by channelling the voice of transcended master on the Astral Plane (probably it was literally Gandalf and Bilbo who dictated the works to him, in fact Tolkien states that it was Bilbo who first wrote down the story of the Lord of the Rings in his "Red Book of Westmarch")

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