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I was there, I can validate.

Of course it's useless, because the OP clearly has no idea what steampunk means (or medieval for that matter), and appears to be using...

How old are you, if you don't mind me asking? I am 50 this year, and we were assigned The Hobbit in 5th grade. We also had the Bashki...

The idea that D&D popularized Tolkien is wild, indeed.

1E had monks because karate and ninja stuff was a big craze in the U.S. in the 1970s. It had spaceships and laser guns because some...

The DM would make something up? I mean, you're talking about 2nd ed AD&D!

Tolkien was HUGE with hippies. Led Zeppelin’s “Ramble On” is from 1969, with lyrics about Lord of the Rings in it, and the college...

Tolkien was like 100 times more popular than D&D in the US in the 70s. It just wasn't comparable. LotR was a cultural phenomena, D&D was...

Nah, LotR was largely unknown in the US until it was embraced by hippie culture in the early 70s and became suddenly massively popular...

It should be by pointed out that waistcoats and pockets are in the book, not just the movies. Bilbo’s outfit is directly based on...

D&D was largely inspired by Burroughs, Howard and Lovecraft, but at around the time of the commercial publication of D&D LotR suddenly...

A very quick summary: Q) Is current D&D medieval? A) No. Q) Did D&D used to be medieval? A) No. Q) Is D&D steampunk? A) No. Q) Is...

If you look on the TV there was a detective with a classic car thing going on in the 80s - Bergarac, Morse. And I guess that was...

No, it's not even vaguely steampunk by any definition of the genre I've come across. It's not really anything other than "D&D'...

I think that's what it's foreshadowing. It's going to be a short and awful existence for most of these artificial children. I would...