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Beleg Cuthalion · 02-09-2005, 12:36 PM

Well I’ll just say to start with that if there was no LOTR then there wouldn’t be really much ‘Fantasy’ writing at all.

Dungeons and Dragons for example, is a direct by product of what M-E did to fantasy genre, you can’t find anything like it before it came out. There are stories like Ivanhoe, King Arthur andRobin Hood and many others, but nothing like Tolkien’s Middle-Earth.

The real reason behind Middle-Earth popularity is that it’s not written as a ‘fiction story’, but that it was written as a history. The languages also play a big part in the books success there are not many books where you can find such comprehensiveness, every thing is planned out almost perfectly.

02-09-2005, 12:36 PM	#2
Beleg Cuthalion Wight Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Hominum que contente mundique huius et cupido Posts: 181	Well I’ll just say to start with that if there was no LOTR then there wouldn’t be really much ‘Fantasy’ writing at all. Dungeons and Dragons for example, is a direct by product of what M-E did to fantasy genre, you can’t find anything like it before it came out. There are stories like Ivanhoe, King Arthur andRobin Hood and many others, but nothing like Tolkien’s Middle-Earth. The real reason behind Middle-Earth popularity is that it’s not written as a ‘fiction story’, but that it was written as a history. The languages also play a big part in the books success there are not many books where you can find such comprehensiveness, every thing is planned out almost perfectly. __________________ War is not the answer, War is the question and the answer is yes Quis ut Deus Last edited by Beleg Cuthalion; 02-09-2005 at 12:59 PM.