Ok, a little personal thought that I’d like to ask other people who have their own fantasy stories. Do you find it hard to create your own original races?
In my own fantasy story lays a world where there are two groups mainly separated by their races who join together based on their beliefs. In one group there are Humans, Elves, Giants, Lycanthropes, Deamons and Uthulus. The other group only has Ogers and Bobbits (for now). Most Ogers, Humans, Lycans etc. are pretty standard in terms of normal fantasy.
However, things like Bobbits (temporary name) Deamons and Uthulus are of my own creation where their origin comes from my own brain. Even when I say that I don’t say it with 100% confidence. The Bobbits for example are and extremely thin, insect-like, tribal race that live in the Flesh Forrest near Volcanoes. Pretty cool and original I’d like to think. But the more I thought about it they were basically Ewoks that lived in another area, were thinner and insect-like. As different as it sounds their general existence is somewhat bland and unoriginal making me think about scraping the race entirely.
A lot to get to one point but I’m still curious on other’s thoughts. So I ask again if anyone with their own fantasy story run into a bump because of unoriginality?