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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1294981" data-attributes="member: 177">Yeah, but funny, that doesn't at all refute the point that there isn't a single image of gnomes that is mythologically common.&nbsp; Existing in Norse does not equal &quot;common&quot;.&nbsp; If you want something that's mythologically common, try dragons.&nbsp; Or undead, especially vampires.&nbsp; There's vaguely vampiric things all over Europe, Africa and Asia.&nbsp; That's common.&nbsp; Meanwhile in Europe there's 17 things that go by the name &quot;gnome&quot; that have little resemblance to each other.Yes, that stuff that few fantasy writers since him have read.&nbsp; <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=":)" />&nbsp; While you may have to go back a long way to find an original thought, most modern writers are getting their thoughts from Tolkien, not from the original source material.&nbsp; And Tokien's fiction is not a &quot;pure&quot; use of that source material by a long shot.&nbsp; He (quite rightly) used and bent the mythological types as he saw fit.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 1294981, member: 177"] Yeah, but funny, that doesn't at all refute the point that there isn't a single image of gnomes that is mythologically common. Existing in Norse does not equal "common". If you want something that's mythologically common, try dragons. Or undead, especially vampires. There's vaguely vampiric things all over Europe, Africa and Asia. That's common. Meanwhile in Europe there's 17 things that go by the name "gnome" that have little resemblance to each other. Yes, that stuff that few fantasy writers since him have read. :) While you may have to go back a long way to find an original thought, most modern writers are getting their thoughts from Tolkien, not from the original source material. And Tokien's fiction is not a "pure" use of that source material by a long shot. He (quite rightly) used and bent the mythological types as he saw fit. [/QUOTE]

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