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Throne Room from my most recent image Elf and Dwarf.
Okay. Uhm… This is the current (and could be the final) version of that elf-dwarf image I’ve been working on… Current number of layers is 406, which is my new record (almost doubling the previous one, which was something over 200) and over 280 of those are only used for zypping…
Note to self: do not do zypping on any Sandokan pictures ever!.
EDIT: I apparently can’t stop tinkering with this image. Now there is 410 layers!
Vol. #3. I’ve started zypping the pic (and started to regret choosing to do so!), but I’m not half done yet. Current number of layers is 250 and counting…
I’m surprised no one has told me yet that it has been done. Foolish me! It was done by R. A. Salvatore, of all writers! Only he had a human woman and an elf ranger. And not just an elf ranger, but a dark elf ranger. I realized this about ten seconds after I turned my computer off last night, but was too tired to turn it on again so I could point it out.
It still escapes me why I didn’t think of Bruenor – Catti-Brie – Drizzt combination being essentially the same than the idea I had. Geez, I’ve lost count how many times I’ve read Dark Elf Trilogy and Icewind Dale Trilogy, so I should have noticed sooner. Oh, well, it is still not copyvio, because as I said the story line I’m thinking is not that original…
Here is an updated picture.
Okay… Here is what my tired mind came up with yesterday after first going to watch the Hobbit and then coming home and watching Dances With Wolves on telly. I somehow started to think what kind of a story you might get from using the story elements from the Western in a story set into a fantasy world.
Dwarfs would replace the Sioux/Lakota tribe (the “good Indians”), orcs/goblins would – of course – be the Pawnees (the “bad Indians”), Kicking Bird would be the dwarf king and Stands with a Fist an elven girl rescued by dwarfs from their common enemy. I’m not yet sure who Dances with Wolves would be, probably a human ranger…
Oh, and while I openly identify the sources of my inspiration here, I don’t believe this is a copy-violation because dwarfs and elves and orcs are pretty universal nowadays, and the story line I’ve been using from Dances with Wolves isn’t really that original in the first place.
