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Friday Fun Thread for April 19, 2024

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I thought they were all just knockoffs of LOTR. the humans are like the Gondorian high men, and the elves are like the Rivendell or forest elves. Or even more so, it's like the 70's/80s ripoffs of LOTR like Dragonlance, Sword of Shannara, Mithgar, Riftwar, etc.

In some sense all of modern fantasy is just a knockoff of LOTR. In fact, I share the conviction that Tolkien invented the whole genre of fantasy, among other things by creating a unified imagery of elves and dwarves that was assimilated in more or less unchanged form into almost all later fantasy works.