Question for fantasy readers
Feb. 13th, 2008 01:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lls_mutantQuick question for those of you who love fantasy:
I'm doing some world building, and working out my animals. The animals don't have any special place in the story- they aren't magic, they aren't "intelligent", and they pretty much serve the same roles in this society as ours. It is a fantasy story, and the world is most definitely not Earth.
That said, I'm basically adapting (or outright using) Terran creatures on my world- some of which are alive and some of which are extinct. (Walruses and mammoths come to mind.) The question is: do you, as a reader, find it more annoying when an author uses the Earth name for an animal, or when they make up a name for an animal that, when you read the description, it's pretty obvious is an Earth animal?
Thanks!
I'm doing some world building, and working out my animals. The animals don't have any special place in the story- they aren't magic, they aren't "intelligent", and they pretty much serve the same roles in this society as ours. It is a fantasy story, and the world is most definitely not Earth.
That said, I'm basically adapting (or outright using) Terran creatures on my world- some of which are alive and some of which are extinct. (Walruses and mammoths come to mind.) The question is: do you, as a reader, find it more annoying when an author uses the Earth name for an animal, or when they make up a name for an animal that, when you read the description, it's pretty obvious is an Earth animal?
Thanks!
