World-building Musings

"Tolkien Derivative" as a starting point.

In October, I wrote a post where the seeds for Ar’rin were revealed to be a phrase written on a piece of paper buried in my old writings: “Tolkien derivative.”

Part of my journey here on Substack has been illuminating as it forced me to reckon with was just ‘what the heck’ I was truly trying to say with my mythic fantasy. This lead me to back to my sour…