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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aristotle" data-source="post: 414838" data-attributes="member: 5885">I think that, as others have pointed out, a great deal of this "concept" is based on African legend. Are all of these individuals going to the library and digging up the information on the legends and using the concept from there? Not likely. They are probably just using the work of those who did so as inspiration for their own ideas, and so forth...Let's face it. The pigmy savage that hides in the trees and uses poisoned darts and blowguns has become a staple of the fantasy/adventure genre. I haven't done the research so I can't say where the undead aspect or the defenders of the temple aspect originated. Perhaps they are a part of the original legends that are sometimes left out, or perhaps they are a more recent addition to the concept. Even if that is the case, it is near impossible to tell who "came up with it first".Writers often borrow from one another. Direct coppies of a previous work can sometimes be annoying, but I don't think you can fault someone for using a standard concept of the genre in their own work. You can however wish they were a bit more creative... I find nothing wrong with the article or the use of the savage undead pigmies themselves. I do however have to look at it as the writer defaulting to a standard concept for the genre instead of attempting to break new ground. There is nothing wrong with the old concepts, but sometimes you like to be inspired by something "new and different".Just my opinion...</blockquote>

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