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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 6279279" data-attributes="member: 1125">Okay I'm trained as an Anthropologist and I actually enjoy the genre of non-european fantasy and like to run a critical eye over the cultural aspects of the story. But I accept that fantasy is the purile entertainment and so my view is that the story should be respectful to the source material but does not need to be 'authentic'.I'm also Polynesian and remember reading Garry Kilworths Navigator-Kings tilogy and generally enjoying its take on Polynesian myth. Kilworth is an Yorkshireman but I feel he did enough research on the folklore to be respectful even as he changed aspects and introduced anachronisms. I did frown at his base conceit of the Lands of Mist being iron-age Scotland in Polynesia (in the place of New Zealand) and screwed up my nose at the story of celts in the pacific but did not find his material offensive.</blockquote>