Posted: Apr 14, 2020 9:13 am
Svartalf wrote:The problem is that there is no real supporting evidence one way or the other... to me, that a plurality of writers could have come with such a big cast of important characters from completely whole cloth seems a bit of a big claim.
That's not how anything works though, is it? That there is no evidence for a non-fictional character here means we can dismiss the claim outright. No one has to provide evidence for the non-existence of a purely fictional character because that is the way to absurdity. What would "supporting evidence" for the non-existence of Slartifbartfast even look like?
