>But stand. Kaladin. DID.
Bump the thread. OP. DID.
The history of Fantasy can be read as a degradation of Tolkien leading towards the inevitable Sanderson. In a sense, the second a topic becomes a genre it enters a self-reflexive spiral where the signifier become the signified, with time robbing of all meaning that that signifer was meant to represent through senseless replication. Sanderson is the premier representation of the "D&Dification" of Fantasy, which demarcates the absence of any narrative merit in service of a scenario in which a narrative can take place, but lacking any meaning other than occurring in that setting. The order of traditional story telling, that the story drives the setting, is reversed. This is the cornerstone of the modern movement of so-called "worldbuilding". With Tolkien, there was an intimate connection between the world and the narrative meaning he was trying to impart. But when that world is simply copied, and then the idea of the centrality of the world copied, the link is severed, and you get a Sanderson. And now in the tradition of the genre, Sanderson himself will be replicated, leading to the further fall of Fantasy. Basically, if Tolkien was an elf, Sanderson is the rapacious corrupted orc which is his descendant.
>>25125529Imagining that ape saying all this with his last breath makes it so much funnier.
>>25125529But Tolkien started with the setting, not the story.
>>25125529tolkien was the epitome of setting being more important than story, you pseudointellectual giganigger
>>25126030O i am laffin
>>25125529>the signifier become the signified>time robbing of all meaning that that signifer was meant to representso this is what happens when a /lit/fag tries to sound smart
