Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-98.247.168.42-20181122042639/@comment-37166538-20190528230746

I'm going to beg to differ on the intentions vs actions statement. I personally believe that a person's intentions are the most important; she isn't trying to be rude, obviously. Sure, she didn't include as much diversity as she possibly could, but again, she didn't do that to purposefully discriminate.

I don't think it "just isn't fair" for authors to model their main characters after themselves. It makes the characters seem more authentic. And if we have all kinds diverse authors, as we should, then we'll end up with plenty of different books with diverse main characters anyways. It's really unrealistic to expect all modern authors to not have their main characters as white or straight. Once again, please don't think I'm saying that all main characters should be that way! I really do think diversity is hugely important in books. I'm just saying that it's not "unfair" to write a character to be like you, just because you happen to be white and straight. You wouldn't say it's unfair if someone from a minority based a character off of themselves.

For the sanctuary/timeline to extinction, I'm no scientist, but I see where you're coming from. My thoughts are a) yes, there are a lot of plotholes in that, unless elves have some higher knowledge of science, but b) I think there comes a point where you have to accept that it's just fantasy. The definition of fantasy is, "the faculty or activity of imagining things, especially things that are impossible or improbable."