Ideas For Spells Options

Okay, I've been on a horrifying and shameful Tolkien binge lately. Literally, horrifying. Three weeks and I read the Hobbit, all three Lord of the Rings books and the Silmarillion. I'm now working on the unfinished tales. Those of you who have access to the box of spells forum (for those who don't... you'll discover many things by the time you reach thirty posts, and access to more forums will be your reward) may have seen my spell for large-scale protective shielding. I got the idea from the Silmarillion. This is the point of this post: to point out the wonderful ideas for spells and things that books can give us. So these books have given me great ones (seeing as the majority of books that include magic are distinctly Harry Potter-esque in the style of the spells used; wave a wand and it will rain candy, the gold ideas are few and far between) and I was wondering: what books have given you great (or good... or average... or bad... you get the point) spell ideas?

Ohh~

So are you saying that the egregores such as the Rainbow Serpent and The Dragon King of the Oceans are merely monsters, and not gods? Where does mythos begin and secular sightings end? I'm getting the impressiong that cryptozoology is an exact science and you're saying that mythology is irrelevant.

UFOs are NOT ANIMALS.

Cryptozoology is reserved for animals from this planet only, right?

On vampires, the internet is chock full of blogs of plenty of vampires coming out, having lived for hundreds of years. Bram Stoker's creation of a 'vampire' is indeed his own, but sanguinarians and other humanoid life forms have, in context of cryptozoology have existed for hundreds upon hundreds of years. In fact, I think there are more blogs about real vampires than those of dragons being sighted

Could a mod move a chunk of this thread to the appropriate board? I sort of don't want to copy and paste this whole thing, as interesting as it is.

This post has been edited by kaboom13: Aug 1 2010, 11:42 PM