It's everyone else's version that turns the fluff quotient up to 11.
In all fairness to Tolkien, his version of elves is comparatively low on the human-scolding and gratuitous dancing and comparatively high on functioning like a real race. Then I realized: What fantasy race also lives in harmony with nature, hides from humans, dwells in random exotic wilderness locations, does magic, loves to dance and sing, speaks a different language, and spends much of its time pondering the brutality of humans and wishing they would grow the hell up? There are books in which goblins aren't evil, but none I know of in which they're superior to humans, and no books in which other official evil fantasy races (orcs, drow) are depicted as good.Īnd yet, as I read DotG I couldn't shake the feeling of "Been there, read that, get on with the baby-eating please." But I was having a hard time coming up with a specific instance of why DotG's goblins in specific felt so retreaded. That's not the case, as several decades of books about good giants and good trolls and good griffins and good dragons and good dragons and good dragons and augh, enough with the good dragons already, people! have shown. IssendaiOne of the common themes of the advertising for Dance of the Goblins is that the plot is new and fresh, that this is the first time the bad guys have been the good guys.
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