THE SUBLEMON — Imagination vs Speculation
Fiction has two modes: the imaginative and the speculative. The mode that has to do with pure, unbridled invention and the mode that tries to think logically about rules and consequences. So the...
Imagination vs Speculation Fiction has two modes: the imaginative and the speculative. The mode that has to do with pure, unbridled invention and the mode that tries to think logically about rules and consequences. So the imaginative parts of Lord of the Rings have to do with the whole-cloth contrivance of things that don't exist: ents, hobbits, dwarves. The speculative parts have to do with how, given the rules of Tolkien's universe, his characters might behave. What would it take for a homebody hobbit to leave home? This principle goes for stories that lack 'fantastic' elements as well. The
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