/lit/ - Literature

>>4899017

>only humans are humanoid
>shapeless spirits that can only manifest through dreams and nature

Nice "sentient amorphous blobs you came up with to evade Tolkien's control over humanoid creatures" you got there, kiddo.

>Base it on brahmanism's mythology instead of gnosticism

Good job with getting creative with "new" material.

Now all you have to do is either completely gloss over backstory and hope your reader won't notice or figure out how to justify whatever that implies without making a backstory wank that's remotely comparable to Tolkien's, which will most likely end with a simple "Tolkien did it better and first" signing your book off for the bin.

>only humans use words. everything else gestures or quacks

Nice job. You've basically proven that the only way to compete is not to play: Tolkien stole all ground available to compete on here.

Besides the strange ass magic system you came up with, you've basically proved my point: you can't fight Tolkien's monolith, everything about your high fantasy has been defined by what you can't do in his wake.

>>4248484
mumble mumble muh divine sublimity