http://www.fictionfixitshop.com/blog/2010/06/03/writing-advice/how-do-you-portray-evil/ Blog of the Fiction Fix-It Shop Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:26:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.fictionfixitshop.com/blog/2010/06/03/writing-advice/how-do-you-portray-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-48 kinjal kishor Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:11:44 +0000 http://www.fictionfixitshop.com/blog/?p=51#comment-48 Yes Sauron in LOR is faceless and does not feel like anything. His black commanders are also kind of faceless and meaningless feeling like statues of terror, to hobbits of course. On the other hand is the demon king Ravana in Indian myth epic Ramayan, who is powerful, learned but still very arrogant. His arrogance provides lots of comedy in the war portion where he converses with his ministers and messengers of hero Rama(who is avatar of a major indian god in human form), while on the other hand the sheer power, knowledge and recklessness of Ravana is terrifying. He does evil due to arrogance but is really havibg a sane mind too. This makes him likeable and hateable botha t same time. He is really funny and interesting villain while in no way he is wea or coward. Yes Sauron in LOR is faceless and does not feel like anything. His black commanders are also kind of faceless and meaningless feeling like statues of terror, to hobbits of course. On the other hand is the demon king Ravana in Indian myth epic Ramayan, who is powerful, learned but still very arrogant. His arrogance provides lots of comedy in the war portion where he converses with his ministers and messengers of hero Rama(who is avatar of a major indian god in human form), while on the other hand the sheer power, knowledge and recklessness of Ravana is terrifying. He does evil due to arrogance but is really havibg a sane mind too. This makes him likeable and hateable botha t same time. He is really funny and interesting villain while in no way he is wea or coward.

]]> http://www.fictionfixitshop.com/blog/2010/06/03/writing-advice/how-do-you-portray-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Advanced Fiction Writing Blog » Blog Archive » On Pitching a Series of Novels Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:30:15 +0000 http://www.fictionfixitshop.com/blog/?p=51#comment-44 [...] and my answer about how to portray Evil in fiction. I took the liberty of asking my friend, freelance editor Meredith Efken at the Fiction Fixit Shop, to comment on this issue on her own blog. She had some interesting things to say, and her closing [...] [...] and my answer about how to portray Evil in fiction. I took the liberty of asking my friend, freelance editor Meredith Efken at the Fiction Fixit Shop, to comment on this issue on her own blog. She had some interesting things to say, and her closing [...]

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