Subj : Re: Good Older Fantasy &
To   : Jimmy Anderson
From : Boraxman
Date : Sun May 11 2025 22:24:00

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 -=> Boraxman wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Bo> My uncle lent me Lord of the Rings when I was 9 or so.  He was quite
 Bo> the Tolkein
 Bo> fan, but as far as I know, not into fantasy, just Tolkein.  I had
 Bo> already read the Hobbit by then, and quite enjoyed it, but the size of
 Bo> Lord of the Rings was daunting and the pace slower.  It sat on the back
 Bo> burner and I didn't read it until much later in life.  It IS the gold
 Bo> standard of fantasy, and set the template for many other fantasy works
 Bo> later.  Tolkein was to fantasy what iD Software was to First Person
 Bo> Shooters, but to be honest, that may be UNDER stating it.

 JA> I know the 'races' from D&D were pulled basically from Tolkein, so he
 JA> influenced the early RPG scene too!

Yes, a lot was derived from those worked.  When I was little, I
thought Tolken wrote these books in the 1800s, they just seemed to
have too much of a cultural legacy to have been that "recent".
 
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