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<blockquote data-quote="William_2" data-source="post: 2484555" data-attributes="member: 13925"><p>Hello,</p><p></p><p>This is probably well known here, but I don’t see it mentioned, so I will mention it: this notion is the basic premise of Michael Crichton’s novel Eaters of the Dead. The 13th Warrior movie, based on it, depicts some sort of cave people as the Wendol. Crichton is quite explicit in the novel, however, that he wanted to address the idea that encounters with late surviving pockets of Neanderthals might perhaps have been the basis for legends of Trolls and such creatures. Grendel, for example, as the other notion used in the book is that sagas such as Beowulf might be viewed as literary treatments of somewhat realistic events. </p><p></p><p>Trolls, Orcs, whatever – I don’t think the name is the point here, but the idea that some relation between early hominids and myths about other races might possibly exist. It seems very appealing for fiction and gaming use, in particular. For it to work in gaming, though, I would think that you would have to not have actual other races running around as well, really.</p><p></p><p>The relation of fossils and odd sea-borne remains to tales of mythical creatures is an interesting topic, too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="William_2, post: 2484555, member: 13925"] Hello, This is probably well known here, but I don’t see it mentioned, so I will mention it: this notion is the basic premise of Michael Crichton’s novel Eaters of the Dead. The 13th Warrior movie, based on it, depicts some sort of cave people as the Wendol. Crichton is quite explicit in the novel, however, that he wanted to address the idea that encounters with late surviving pockets of Neanderthals might perhaps have been the basis for legends of Trolls and such creatures. Grendel, for example, as the other notion used in the book is that sagas such as Beowulf might be viewed as literary treatments of somewhat realistic events. Trolls, Orcs, whatever – I don’t think the name is the point here, but the idea that some relation between early hominids and myths about other races might possibly exist. It seems very appealing for fiction and gaming use, in particular. For it to work in gaming, though, I would think that you would have to not have actual other races running around as well, really. The relation of fossils and odd sea-borne remains to tales of mythical creatures is an interesting topic, too. [/QUOTE]
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