I absolutely LOVE "Born of Hope"!! It's far more canon--like than any single scene in " Rings of Power ". The actors are wonderful, so is the story and its screen adaptation. I wish that she'd do many more fan-films similar to Born of Hope
If you like the director, I believe she's making an original indie fantasy TV show on the channel Mythica Entertainment. I haven't had time to check it out, but it looks good.
I've read the whole series, and it's sequel series as well as the two "autobiographies" of Belgarath and Polgara more times than I can really remember! My father started reading them to Me as youngster and I finished em on my own and just keep returning to em!
Aww, I'm sorry you stopped where you did. The character of Laurana is my all time favorite fictional character, and her story gets so good in the second half of Dragons of Winter Night. But I fully agree that there's nothing wrong with stopping on a book you aren't enjoying.
I might try it again eventually, though. Right now I’m working through the death gate cycle, but eventually I might sit down and read the chronicles not for fun but to read the other books in the series that everyone loves.
Lately I tried a pallet cleanser after a streak of reading pulp fantasy (Moorcock, Wagner, Howard) so i decided on Kerouacs "On the road". It is a chore. I'm struggling.
Thanks! I'm just trying to spread the word about short stories, even though the algorithm doesn't seem to like these videos. Some of the magazines are struggling to get people to read/ subscribe, and I want to try my best to help. (I really didn't talk about that in this video, because I have done it a lot before and wanted to have a bit of a break.)
@@NathanaelStottlemyer So true. I think that is awesome! I just subscribed to a couple of fantasy magazines to read more short fiction and find more authors!
Thank you for watching! I don’t get nearly as many views on my book reviews and I feel weird that my reviews aren’t like Daniel Greene’s or the other book people I watch. The Belgariad will not disappoint, unless you are expecting rangers…
@NathanaelStottlemyer Just keep being you and do your thing! They have been doing it a long time. You will keep growing and get more and more followers and views. Hang in there and keep grinding dude!
From Middle English gobelyn, from Old Northern French gobelin (compare Norman goubelin, Walloon gobelin), possibly a blend of Old Dutch *kobeholdo (“goblin”) (compare Dutch kabouter, German Kobold) and Late Latin cobalus (“mountain sprite”), from Ancient Greek κόβαλος (kóbalos, “rogue, knave; goblin”). Displaced native Old English pūca from Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”).
Thank you for the video providing historical context on elves! I look forward to your future videos in this series. I wonder if some of the shrinking elves experienced had to do with later writers misunderstanding the terms people would use to avoid rousing the ire of the fae. They would use terms like "the good folk" or "the little people" instead of calling them faeries or elves in order to avoid their attention and appease them. I wonder if folklorists in the Romantic and Victorian eras, or perhaps their illustrators, misunderstood this terminology and made elves literally little because of it?
Cannot wait for the next vid. I always find it interesting how people believe that an old concept remains unchanged only to see our ancestors are refferring to completely different things. Would love to check out how society might have influenced these changes to elves.
You should look up Alp and study German Elves they are written about even around 1000. at this time kinda talked about like vampires. but still there is another 500 years of elf in culture than you think and can help you understand them even more.
I listened to the first 8-10 seasons, or so. Whatever, you could just bulk download from their website. I tried some of their new stuff, but after Brandon Sanderson left, I didn't feel like they were as good. I stopped listening after a while, mostly because it was, like I said, more of an excuse for me not to write. I'll probably give it another try sometime!
Very exciting times for fantasy. I love the genre taking on more different settings and tropes. Adding a little bit of scientific elements is fun. Agree that it’s still fantasy though
I’m tempted to try Dragorsteel Prime, since DS won’t be out for a long time and I’m curious what transpired on Yolen that kicked everything off. But the number of story elements that are now part of other books makes me think the eventual DS will be too different to get any realistic indication.
Yeah, between what I read in the book and what Sanderson has said, I’m not sure much will stay for the next version. If anything, he’ll keep the world building (except the shattered plain) And maybe (personal theory) the parts of Hoid/ Cephandreus’s quest which also involves deities.
We have entered into a new realm of unique plagiarism. In my eyes, AI is ultimately that, a form of plagiarism. Plagiarism with a shiny new coat. From what I understand about the technology, it requires immense training set of creations, and from the sum total training, the machine attempts to recreate what it has consumed. So the "AI" artist, has not from his own artistic skill and capabilities created a work, but rather he has essentially used a machine made by others, which he has not made himself, and that machine was trained on the works of others, he used it to create a "work" which he boldly claims his own, although he failed to put in the effort that the honest man would put into his own creation. He took other's works, and tried to pass it off as his own creation because he managed to imagine a sentence. I can see why an executive might feel the desire to replace his subordinates with the machine, for as the executive, the most he has in a creative process is singular idea. Too what does he care, if he'll manage to make equal money with a machine and an underpaid wrangler, or 30 hardworking individuals? Most of us are unfortunate enough to live in a society where the man who is given the authority, fails to recognize his own duty to his slaves, or even the value of his slaves. As I foresee, the only path in which AI is successfully managed, is the same path for most societal problems. A functional society requires a moral people to succeed. If the men are virtuous, then they are going to abhor the thought of pseudo plagiarism and would rather attempt the harder path. Most functions in society require this basic moral understanding. A store is required to have a customer base it can trust to give money in exchange for the items they pick up. For many a store, there is nothing physically preventing a man from walking out the wrong door, but he understands that he must exchange something for the item he desires. So, like the free floating merchandise, only when the writer is expected to be the author of his own work, and trusted to not lie about his authorship, and trusted to take the harder way, rather then the morally abhorrent path, can one see a solution to the problem of "AI".
I was doing some research and apparently Dragon Wing didn't come out in the 80s but 1990 exactly, so I was very close. Still, this seems to me very much like an old time fantasy from the 70s or 80s, and there's nothing wrong with that!
The reason people fear AI, it's because like you said on your conclusion, both the creator and the created are fundamentally the same. Let me paraphrase: If I fallow your advice at the end of the video, I would ultimately end up fearing the AI because I don't trust it's creator.
Your assumption is that the AI seems like a copy of its creator, the human. I beg to differ, the "models" internal to the learned data seems to form a synthetic intelligence similar to ours which is biological. But in processing data, it is much much more efficient. The "intelligence" level whether real or mimicked seems real high based on current models. It certainly mastered language as far as we can tell. Yet we do not have a definitive idea of how it actually works. That complexity seems to be beyond our human intellect so far. As this intelligence grows linearly or exponentially, it becomes very alien rather than human though it fully understands human values. Whether or not it prioritise human values above anything else is our hope. And it does not have to be sentient to do all the good things we aspire for. My bet is, it will be pro humanity and fully understands bad humans from good humans and act accordingly. Like a father to his children!.
@@fteoOpty64 Oh I'm not arguing against his premise. I actually agree. I'm trying to explain why people fear AI. He himself gave a pretty good reason why people fear AI at the end of his video, and it a pretty logical fear to me. In the end, we fear AI BECAUSE we fear/not trust ourselves.
