Tolkien is to blame for the state of 5e and generic fantasy that you see in TTRPGs. We wouldn't have horrible big fat fantasy books, nor power fantasy / wish fulfilment, which you find in scaling levels through so-called "XP". Fantasy used to be an experimental, creative, and wild genre filled with mad imagination; now, it is all wooden and samey. >tl;drListen to this:https://voca.ro/1Rwc7lMX0hfT
>>97208350Tolkien didn't do shit to literature. You're thinking of shithouse publishers like Del Ray who pushed a specific formula for the ideal fantasy book and flooded the market with generic slop.
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>>97208350>Dante is to blame for the state of 5e and generic fantasy that you see in TTRPGs. We wouldn't have horrible big fat fantasy poems, nor power fantasy/wish fulfilment, which you find in scaling levels through so-called "XP". Fantasy used to be an experimental, creative, and wild genre filled with mad imagination; now, it is all wooden and samey.
>>97208350can't destroy something that was already shit to begin with.
>>97208350>it's Tolkien's fault that he made something good enough that people loosely copied the basic idea badly
>>97208439To be fair, Dante was a fanfic writer, and even had a waifu.
>>97208498it's Tolkien's fault that he made something good enough that people loosely copied the basic idea badly
>>97208498The boom of fantasy lit happened long after Tolkien, and most of them weren't even remotely trying to copy his prose or characters or worldbuilding.
What a terrible newfag thread
>>97208350>we stagnated and it's all Tolkien fault for being so good that everyone who came after him imitated him!
Most fantasy authors don't even understand Tolkien.Try explaining to them that Tolkien's elves don't see themselves as magical beings. Try explaining to them that machinery is sorcery in Tolkien's mind.They will lose their minds.
Tolkien Bad is the most basic bitch entry level contrarianism imaginable, baka
>>97208350>nor power fantasy / wish fulfilment,Go home REH, you're drunk
>>97208350What's some recent fantasy aside from the most popular and well-known stuff you've read lately, anon?
>>97208608Yes, weird how he became a judas figure
>>97209112Isn't REH actually big on these? Specially Kull.
>>97209251That's the point.
>>97208350>nor power fantasy / wish fulfilment,Retard alertEverything is SOMEONES wish fulfillmentYou know what those Wicked movies are so popular? Its wish fulfillment for fat chicks
>>97208350Aren't some of these writers infamous for hating Tolkien?
>>97208809This retard makes a thread bitching about Tolkien every few weeks. He seems to think he's saying something profound by denegrating Tolkien for things he had no involvement or say in.
>>97208577This picture but unironically
