[Morsul the Dark]

I do suppose I only asked for personal effects...butr what about the greater picture

the millions of fans the writers inspired by it the writers that make refrences to it...I ask you how much of our world formed from tolkein's work what would be the butterfly effect of it all? (Im refering to an older story(which i cant remember right now) by the way not the movie hated the movie Ashton cant act but anyway)

would D&D be so popular would RPGs be as fun would literature be what it is would movies be the same heck would our language be the same?