Author Topic: Around the fictional, legendary and mythological world (Read 45896 times)

Robbie · « **Reply #900 on:** September 20, 2020, 04:16:23 PM »

Quote from: Blokey McBlokeface on September 14, 2020, 08:37:12 AM

Real place.
Kythia (Discworld).

Thanks, I've altered it.

Angel Grove

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #901 on:** September 20, 2020, 04:18:31 PM »

Brigadoon

ekim · « **Reply #902 on:** September 20, 2020, 04:22:00 PM »

Cardassia

SteveH · « **Reply #903 on:** September 20, 2020, 04:24:17 PM »

Quote from: Robbie on September 20, 2020, 04:16:23 PM

Thanks, I've altered it.

Angel Grove

Jolly good. Unfortunately, "Gilead" is also a real place - or was, at any rate; it's in the Old Testament.

Don't bother changing it!

Despond, Slough of

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #904 on:** September 20, 2020, 04:48:57 PM »

Quote from: Blokey McBlokeface on September 20, 2020, 04:24:17 PM

Jolly good. Unfortunately, "Gilead" is also a real place - or was, at any rate; it's in the Old Testament. Don't bother changing it!

Despond, Slough of

It's also fictional in The Handmaid's Tale so perfectly fine.

Egerton

SteveH · « **Reply #905 on:** September 21, 2020, 06:46:44 AM »

Fourecks

Harrowby Hall · « **Reply #906 on:** September 21, 2020, 08:35:32 AM »

Does it matter if somewhere is a real place as well as a place found in a fictional, legendary or mythological context? It is the location of that place in some unreal context that is important. Not its location ona map.

Is Gotham, a village to the south of Nottingham, really to be dismissed because it was the location of stories about villagers wanting to avoid the area being turned into a hunting park? If a legend takes place in in a real place, then the place becomes part of the legend anhence is "legendary". Legendary does not mean that a place doesn't exist. Of course, Gotham City does not exist.

Is Rupert Brooke's Grantchester really the same place as the village in Cambridgeshire? Or is it some idealised manifestation of that village and hence fictional?

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #907 on:** September 21, 2020, 08:47:15 AM »

Guildstead Carbonell

SteveH · « **Reply #908 on:** September 21, 2020, 10:38:43 AM »

Hades

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #909 on:** September 21, 2020, 11:18:58 AM »

Ínsula Barataria

Robbie · « **Reply #910 on:** September 21, 2020, 06:11:31 PM »

Jericho - the one in the North of England around which a recent TV series was made.

I was thinking about places such as Gilead. Just because there is such a place doesn't mean there is not also a fictional place of same name. For example there are several Springfields but on this thread the Simpsons' town is the one that is meant.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #911 on:** September 21, 2020, 06:16:26 PM »

ekim · « **Reply #912 on:** September 22, 2020, 08:31:26 AM »

Lantar nebula

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #913 on:** September 22, 2020, 12:19:33 PM »

Moronica

SteveH · « **Reply #914 on:** September 22, 2020, 01:30:34 PM »

OK - I suggest that the rule is that you can use a real place-name, as long as it's also the name of a SEPARATE fictional place: thus 'Gilead' is allowed, because the fictional one is not the real one, but 'Grantchester' isn't, because the TV series is set in the real Grantchester, not in a different, fictional one.

Northfarthing (LotR)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #915 on:** September 22, 2020, 01:36:11 PM »

Oto Island

SteveH · « **Reply #916 on:** September 22, 2020, 01:53:59 PM »

Pseudopolis Yard

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #917 on:** September 22, 2020, 10:04:33 PM »

Qualactin

Harrowby Hall · « **Reply #918 on:** September 23, 2020, 09:55:59 AM »

Quote from: Blokey McBlokeface on September 22, 2020, 01:30:34 PM

OK - I suggest that the rule is that you can use a real place-name, as long as it's also the name of a SEPARATE fictional place: thus 'Gilead' is allowed, because the fictional one is not the real one, but 'Grantchester' isn't, because the TV series is set in the real Grantchester, not in a different, fictional one.

You completely missed my point.

I was concerned with the Grantchester of Rupert Brooke's poem. Is a real place graced with nymphs, fauns and satanic cries? And is there honey still for tea? To Brooke, in a foreign land, Granchester is somewhere conjured up in some kind of dream.

It may be a place on an Ordnance Survey map. It may be a place which road signs point to, which can be reached and visited. But in this case it is a fantasy in the mind of an exile.

As for the tv programme, I have never seen it.

Railway Cuttings, Cheam.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #919 on:** September 23, 2020, 10:31:14 AM »

Stonybridge

Robbie · « **Reply #920 on:** September 30, 2020, 01:32:00 PM »

Toytown

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #921 on:** September 30, 2020, 01:53:16 PM »

United Cities of America

ekim · « **Reply #922 on:** September 30, 2020, 03:44:12 PM »

Vanity Fair

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #923 on:** September 30, 2020, 03:58:45 PM »

Wazoo

Robbie · « **Reply #924 on:** October 03, 2020, 02:23:18 PM »

X'elo

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