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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MostlyHarmless42" data-source="post: 8092630" data-attributes="member: 6845520">And then risk getting called out for cultural appropriation if you are not a member of one of those cultures, if recent pleathora of threads are of any indication, albeit that is an entirely different topic of discussion. This is particularly likely to occur if one's attempt at modeling said cultures is blatantly half-assed (again it's almost as people's objections are to bad and lazy writing on the part of authors).Precisely. Even the story of Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit are arguably liberal retellings of Ring of the Nibelung. Thorin and his family (as well as Smaug's) obsession with gold is taken directly out of Nordic folklore in where dwarves become corrupted by their lust for gold or treasure and turn into dragons. Smaug is hands down modeled after Fafnir.</blockquote>