(sorta) OK, this is another one of my weird ideas. And despite the title it isn't fanfiction. Maybe or not. At any rate, I think this has to be the weirdest concept I ever thought of. What I want to know is mostly is it doable, would you read it, is it too derivative?) Any help brainstorming on how to make it different from The Hobbit?
The concept is this:
In Issenheim, a Norse By Norsewest country on an alternate Earth (a kind of composite of Iceland and Norway) a street kid named Bjarki who's The Artful Dodger and half-troll (older sense of foreign/Sámi— the name "Bjarki" comes from Bodvar Bjarki whose father's stepmother was Sámi) lives with Thórinn Thrainsson, a dwarvish Fagin who's basically the complete opposite of the original Dickens character but still has a creepy aspect to him (the near-constant use of endearments for "his kids" and everyone around, the threats of "You can't escape me.. ever! If you try I will have you hanged/ use your skin as magic pants..")
Anyway, a kraptaskald (poet with magical powers) called Gandálfur Ragnarsson(Gandálf was also a legendary Norwegian king with elvish blood)approaches Thórinn asking him to send his thieves to steal the Jarknasteinn, a valuable sunstone carved of Iceland spar for his own reasons. The main problem is that Thórinn's old enemy, a beserker called Skallagrim the Quick also wants the Jarknasteinn. Dungeon Punk.
BTW "Thórinn" is my own attempt to anglicise the Old Norse male name "Þórinn" meaning "bold one" which Tolkien anglicised as "Thorin". Dwalin in the form "Dvalinn" appears often in Norse-based fiction.
So any opinions and plot suggestions on how to make it different? This is something I've been thinking of for a while.
Something I'm wondering about: just WTH is Skallagrim the Quick? Beyond a berserker with blue skin and supernatural powers?
(sorta) OK, this is another one of my weird ideas. And despite the title it isn't fanfiction. Maybe or not. At any rate, I think this has to be the weirdest concept I ever thought of. What I want to know is mostly is it doable, would you read it, is it too derivative?) Any help brainstorming on how to make it different from The Hobbit?
The concept is this:
In Issenheim, a Norse By Norsewest country on an alternate Earth (a kind of composite of Iceland and Norway) a street kid named Bjarki who's The Artful Dodger and half-troll (older sense of foreign/Sámi— the name "Bjarki" comes from Bodvar Bjarki whose father's stepmother was Sámi) lives with Thórinn Thrainsson, a dwarvish Fagin who's basically the complete opposite of the original Dickens character but still has a creepy aspect to him (the near-constant use of endearments for "his kids" and everyone around, the threats of "You can't escape me.. ever! If you try I will have you hanged/ use your skin as magic pants..")
Anyway, a kraptaskald (poet with magical powers) called Gandálfur Ragnarsson(Gandálf was also a legendary Norwegian king with elvish blood)approaches Thórinn asking him to send his thieves to steal the Jarknasteinn, a valuable sunstone carved of Iceland spar for his own reasons. The main problem is that Thórinn's old enemy, a beserker called Skallagrim the Quick also wants the Jarknasteinn. Dungeon Punk.
BTW "Thórinn" is my own attempt to anglicise the Old Norse male name "Þórinn" meaning "bold one" which Tolkien anglicised as "Thorin". Dwalin in the form "Dvalinn" appears often in Norse-based fiction. So any opinions and plot suggestions on how to make it different? This is something I've been thinking of for a while.
Something I'm wondering about: just WTH is Skallagrim the Quick? Beyond a berserker with blue skin and supernatural powers?
edited 31st Dec '13 4:43:51 PM by MorwenEdhelwen
The road goes ever on. -Tolkien