Member profile for stephen drac peters

Actually all I see on your comment list is one request for aid... and that came from an 8th grader. Nothing about thanking you for tearing someones story to shreads. I believe the ban wasn’t technically for your intelectual idealistic comments, but at how you presented your knowledge. You have a rather harsh way with words.

Btw, what is your pupose here? You have nothing uploaded. No pictures, no artwork, nothing. You have written textbooks, as I can see, but even they don’t have anything to do with dragons. You have a forum thing going (which is quite informative I might add.) I think you should practice what you preach. If you want people to know about how a "REAL DRAGON SLAYING STORY" should go, write one. Don’t go around butchering everyone elses.

in the june 15 comment, you said i "erased your comments". What are you talking about? I didn’t erase anything. What’s this whole thing about Hitler and germany? You never posted anything about that. I found this accidentally, and I don’t want to get into an argument. I never opposed your opinions, just your extremely harsh criticisms of Tolkien in a movie forum. I don’t really know what’s going on, so I’m not going to say anything else.

Rachel, I was referring to a moderator, not you.

Sneercat, I have actually written a number of fantasy stories and referred to them here, but having trouble uploading them into a gallery becasue of the apparent limitations of my computer. You can read one of them in the forum as well as my adding to a second interactive story there. I am not butchering anyone’s stories, I am just offering an intelligent appraisal of them based on a common sense knowledge of real animals. And yes, several people have thanked me for my input on this site and several other writing sites. These comments will not be posted here, but in their galleries.

errrr... has anybody pointed out to you, that dragons don’t actually exist ?

Hi there. Just read through a bit of comments here and have a thing or two to say. If I may jump into the fray without having a clue to earlier conversations?
I agree with you about the ridiculousness of killing a dragon with a sword, but I wouldn’t say it’s wrong (or impossible) necessarily. It depends on the dragon, the situation and the world it’s occurring in. At least I think so. But personally, I’m a fan of "can’t kill dragon with normal sword". A magical sword though, that’d be different eh?

And to make a turn to Tolkien. What’s him being a nazi and whatnots got to do with his books? I’ve read them 5 times (Lord of the Rings, not the rest) and have never seen anything racistic in it. Apart from the "elves are gods and better then everyone" thing. But that’s about elves and they don’t exist for real. I think one should not try and think too much when reading a book. The author and the book-world are not the same thing. If I write about a blood thirsty vampire that loves to kill and torment red haired types, that doesn’t make me the same kind of person. And if I was, I could still write a book about something nice and peaceful without any "hidden" meanings it the story reflecting my views. However, I do not hold Tolkien in any godlike reverence (that’d be stupid). I think he was a normal person. He did some things right and some wrong, but I like his books. I’ve read others that are both worse and better. Why do you think he was a "total moron" as you say though, regarding the storyline? I’m curious.

Anon: errr... has anyone point out to you that at least 3/4ths of the world’s population has dragons in their theologies, or that several countries are so convinced that giant unknown animals exist in their waters (that people might have called dragons in the past), that they have passed laws not to molest them, or that scientists have actually described and given scientific names to giant unknown animals that appear to be reptiles and look like dragons?

I suspect you do not know enough about this to offer meaningful commentary on the subject.

Marika, regarding the dragonslaying, if the dragon is large and has the normal attributes any real-life reptilian carnivore would have, then any human would be hopelesly outclassed by a dragon, and have no more chance than a rat would against a komodo dragon. It is just common sense. And then make the dragon fly, intelligent and spew fire and it would be impossible for humans to kill one. Yes maybe men could kill baby dragons, the size of a goat like St. George’s nonsense, but what about the mother?

Magic sword? What would make a sword magic? And in a world with magic, wouldn’t dragons have the most magical ability, being able to fly as huge creatures and breath fire, both things that challenge science? The only realistic magic I can envision is psychic ability like telekinensis that could explain dragon flight. An enormous sentient creature like a dragon would have many times the psychic abilities of any human and therefore human magic would never affect it.

Marika, I never said Tolkien ’was a Nazi’. I stated that Tolkien supported some of the same views as the Nazis, like taking all of the Latin words out of Germanic languages to keep them ’pure’. SEVERAL literary scholars have noted that Tolkien made Anglo-Saxons, and Nordic Elves his ’master races’ and good guys of his books, whereas the evil humans in the stories hail from the "Southlands" and are "Easterners" who with thier elephants, and dark complexions suggest men from africa or asia.

But Tolkien is typical of his time. MOST Englishmen of his time believed in the inferiority of all other races compared to Anglo Saxons.

Tolkien’s books glorify the Anglo Saxons, and he strives to turn them into an advanced civilization, rather than illiterate barbarians that dwelled in dung hovels. The purpose of LOTR was to create a new National Myth for the British People to glorify their anglo saxo heritage. But in truth, the British people kept King Arthur as thier national legend, A Romanized Briton who fought the Anglo Saxon barbarians as invaders.

lol... I just love the way people try to disect other peoples works. Most authors just say what they want, and create a place, race, and people that they want. It’s not like they are trying to hide another ’parallel’ world in their writing. That’s just outright too much work.