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17223976 No.17223976 [Reply] [Original]

Was High-fantasy a mistake?

>> No.17223984
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>>17223976
> Yes.

>> No.17224197

>>17223976
can't believe those exeter bastards actually had trees on their lawn

>> No.17224913

>>17223976
I think its really DnD thats to blame for the pulp nature of fantasy as a genre, not Tolkien.
and even from the crucible of shit that is DnD inspired pulp-fantasy there have popped out some pretty good works

>> No.17224924

>>17223976
Tolkein raped his own kin.

>> No.17224944

>>17224924
Go on

>> No.17225628

>>17224197
stop pretending you went to oxford

>> No.17225687

>>17223976
Damn, I have a sport coat like that its comfy as fuck

>> No.17225709

No, not really, but it should stop being so damn derivative.

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>> No.17225724

>>17225718
Is it good?

>> No.17225732

>>17223976
Turning books into a market for the masses was a mistake. If LOTR has been written and that was it, everything would be wonderful. You like the odyssey? Now imagine millions of books had been written in the “odyssey genre” by talentless hacks who are all terrible derivatives of the first book they’re ripping off. Hopefully a few thousand years will wash away every derivative from existence, so that only the classic can survive. Eat shit grim dark boomer authors

>> No.17225760

>>17225724
Yeah

>> No.17226792

>>17225732
That's not really Tolkien's fault, though.

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>>17223984