by Enyalie » April 9th, 2006, 8:22 am
As far as personality vs voice goes with the inspiration for Treebeard... well I ain't saying that Treebeard's completely based on Lewis, but surely if you were writing a character, and were inspired in part by a dear friend for even just the voice, you might slip in a bit of personality as well? The voice of a friend is, to me, a kind of a... well, there's some connection there. I hear a dear friend's voice on the phone, I associate it with their presence. You know the voice of a person you care about well enough to pick it out from a crowd.
So if you associate a voice with that character, wouldn't it just naturally flow for there to be at least a bit of that person's presence along with it?
And if there wasn't some kind of association there, why would it occur to you to base a characteristic of your creation on that person in the first place?
“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart”
-C.S. Lewis