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03-08-2003, 08:02 PM
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Are stupid outlandish names necessary in sci-fi/fantasy?
More often than not, they just serve to confuse the heck out of me rather than absorb me into some make-believe world.
Guys like Tolkien I can understand - he's all systematic about it, and it's easy to glean stuff based on his linguistic patterns and such, and at least he still leaves very Anglicized hobbit-names intact. But all his imitators and emulators make a complete mess out of naming conventions and just seem to come up with the most ridiculously unpronounceable names that are also impossible to remember.
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