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[@AtomicNut] I'm not sure what the Ring is about aside from a quick web search, so I'm not sure what you were drawing on.  Tropes are common across works, so if you're using something from a work that fits a trope, it's still the trope, even if the trope itself wasn't the source of your inspiration.  Greedy dragon is a trope, regardless of what made you want to use it.

I know you're changing plans -- and am eager to see your new ideas.
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See, that is the issue. I do believe tropes oversimplify and belittle older works by being employed out of the site proper, and by argument of precedence tropes are but oversimplified imitation of the original work. What would Richard Wagner think of part of his compilation of Siegfred/Sigurd's myth being called a trope? I for once, feel rudely belittled by having my ideas called a trope outside of the site proper, so I would request politely to not use such.