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Today's quickpoll about trees reminded me of something I wanted to discuss Dark Knight Send a noteboard - 07/03/2011 04:49:40 AM
What's with the tree fetish in the fantasy genre? Is it just a way to fill up the pages as people are traveling? Because folks, I don't know the first damn thing about trees. You have authors like Robert Jordan waxing poetically about oak, maple, fig, birch, etc. I couldn't tell you the difference between an oak tree and a maple tree for all the money in the world.

It's not a big annoyance but it just seems like authors spend way too much time talking about the trees that surround the characters. Imagine spending time researching different trees to use in your book when all people care about is that there are trees and they have leaves. I don't know if an oak tree's leaves turn colors in the fall but I wouldn't care if an author said they do.

Bloody trees! Excuse me while I go jerk off to Trees Gone Wild.
Formerly Mat Bloody Cauthon on Wotmania, blessed be its name
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Today's quickpoll about trees reminded me of something I wanted to discuss - 07/03/2011 04:49:40 AM 843 Views
I think it's to cater to people that supposedly hate ebooks - 07/03/2011 06:09:02 AM 699 Views
You might not know much, or even the average reader - 07/03/2011 06:22:15 AM 552 Views
Wow. - 07/03/2011 07:34:43 AM 648 Views
Oh come on now - 07/03/2011 02:34:08 PM 596 Views
Re: Oh come on now - 07/03/2011 02:54:31 PM 583 Views
Re: Oh come on now - 07/03/2011 06:19:12 PM 609 Views
Exactly - 07/03/2011 07:58:46 PM 736 Views
This is true. - 07/03/2011 10:53:20 PM 513 Views
I can tell right away, from the tree or just a leaf. - 07/03/2011 08:10:10 PM 494 Views
Where I grew up, most everyone would know virtually every tree. - 07/03/2011 10:48:18 PM 561 Views
Like ghavrel said, they are important culturally and mythologically - 07/03/2011 05:05:37 PM 579 Views
Tolkien was a tree freak *NM* - 08/03/2011 01:36:57 AM 245 Views

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