Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130830034006/@comment-15108745-20130830191021

In essence that is what causes really good entertainment to be considered original, really. Most stories that you see nowadays, you might have heard in some for or another. We have seen the premise of RWBY already in Soul Eater. But what makes a film or a book really stick out at you is just those details that manage to just differentiate this piece of work from that which you have seen before. The Lord of the Rings tell a tale of someone (Morgoth) who fell from grace after getting jealous. (Paradise Lost anyone?) But what makes LOTR really stick out and be considered one of the "bar-setters" in fantasy literature is the awesome world-building that Tolkien has done and the interactions between the different characters in his books. Of course, RWBY's not as grand as LOTR but just looking at the speculation on this website I think makes it clear that people are very fascinated with the world that Monty has created.