Talk:Marco Farfarer

Star Trek TNG's creators say that a great deal of work went into re-envisaging the Klingons from their rather ropey beginnings in the original series, where they came over as slightly more agressive human beings with bushy eyebrows and daft haircuts. To make them into a genuinely alien race, Brannon Braga and the rest read extensively, and pulled in much information from several academic disciplines. (including the much derided use of linguists to create a Klingon language - which, when you stop and think about it, is nothing more than the linguist JRR Tolkein did to give Middle Earth an extra dimension of depth. Tolkein thought it was indispensible to his creation and nobody pulled him for it.)

Braga is on record of saying they pulled in science fiction novels from all over the world, from all cultures, and anything from other peoples' conception of the Other they thought was germane to the creation of Klingons in general and Worf in particular, they plagiarised shamelessly....

so a little bit of Terry Pratchett may well have made it into the Star Trek continuum, which is as nice thought! --AgProv 09:49, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Nitpick: Tolkien did not go on to invent languages for his Middle-earth world to make it more complex - creating languages independently came first. He always loved language, and so also began creating languages himself. Creating his stories and world of Arda/Middle-earth came later, where he could freely run with his "secret vice" (as he titled an essay). So tl;dr: Tolkien (as he himself often stated) did not start making languages for his stories, but his stories came from his creating languages. -a Tolkiendil 217.95.184.252 14:34, 16 January 2010 (UTC)