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<blockquote data-quote="gban007" data-source="post: 9070522" data-attributes="member: 56488">I think it is ironic when talking about consistency, given the Lord of the Rings led to a fairly major retcon of the Hobbit, one of the things that makes the first edition of the Hobbit so valuable.I just don't see Tolkien's statement as a lead in to simulationism, I can see it as a lead into immersion, that people believe in the world they are in, as it accords to the laws.&nbsp; It doesn't preclude, say, an author deciding that a character that was taken as a reliable first person narrator was in fact lying for a section for a period of time, or changing mind on how Orcs came into being for instance <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />But putting aside those examples, if the author is true to what came before, all it means he is simulating as such, is a world where one authority figure can determine what happens, he could easily have decided that elves could fly by flapping their arms and without using magic, and as long as consistent, would follow his statement, but would you really consider that simulationist?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gban007, post: 9070522, member: 56488"] I think it is ironic when talking about consistency, given the Lord of the Rings led to a fairly major retcon of the Hobbit, one of the things that makes the first edition of the Hobbit so valuable. I just don't see Tolkien's statement as a lead in to simulationism, I can see it as a lead into immersion, that people believe in the world they are in, as it accords to the laws. It doesn't preclude, say, an author deciding that a character that was taken as a reliable first person narrator was in fact lying for a section for a period of time, or changing mind on how Orcs came into being for instance :) But putting aside those examples, if the author is true to what came before, all it means he is simulating as such, is a world where one authority figure can determine what happens, he could easily have decided that elves could fly by flapping their arms and without using magic, and as long as consistent, would follow his statement, but would you really consider that simulationist? [/QUOTE]

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