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The point is, you are refusing to accept that modern fantasy is based on anything but European Romance. When it has a great many influences KP DH is as modern a fantasy as you can get, and likely to have a huge influence down the line, and there is no way it can have any connection to European...

Survey design: I would make the time period a bit more prominant. I would have gone for "last 12 months" to be more meaningful too. And your bins seem a little small, I play about 3 hours per fortnight (so 60 hours in 10 months) and I would consider that as being at the low end. 200+ would seem...

You have the Princes of Elemental Evil and the Elder Elemental Eye (AKA you know who). Nothing says that a 5e paladin needs to be good. But I interpret paladin's powers as coming from their oath - which might be to a deity, hence the confusion. I prefer to always keep the deus entirely in the...

Not really no - magical stuff is widely portrayed as a nuisance that Grant gets lumbered with because no one else wants to be bothered. The civil powers know very well that magic is real - a real menace- and always have done.

Yes, because it’s important to the question of what is modern fantasy? And the answer ain’t entirely Euro-centric. The blindingly obvious isn’t really worth discussing, and the significance of Tolkien wildly exaggerated. Looking at possible links between REH or E. Nesbit and medieval romance...

Once they realised the ending they had wouldn’t go down well they just wanted to get it over with.

Personally, I would find an all-white mostly male cast objectionable.

It’s the progenitor of all modern European fiction. The events depicted were real to their audience, no more fantastical than a modern Action movie or Rom Com. Which is not conducive to liking something. LotR was written specifically to try and counter the influence of “new fangled Norman...

These shows are really better suited to long form animation. There was a survey recently in which younger folk indicated that they would rather watch animation in any case.

I think that they could stick fairly close to the main story - it’s pretty simple, which is better for TV. But we know that all the major controversy will be over the skin colour of the cast, no matter who they cast.

I think the opposite is true. It’s the toxic fanbase that is running the show down. On its own, it’s a slight, but very pretty-looking, fantasy show.

It’s not “great” but it’s entertaining enough, and I’m enjoying it more than I enjoyed GoT and WoT. Of course the “huge LotR fans” are the people who review bombed it for not being sufficiently pure.

True - and not fantasy. False. Even if you are claiming “modern fantasy grew from Tolkien” (not true but a common misconception) he despised medieval romance and was inspired by earlier sources, such as Beowulf. Where is you chain of inspiration connecting Medieval romance to K-pop Demon Hunters?

That’s the movie version, in the book Merry is the sensible one, even compared to Frodo.

I think any comparison to the UN fails when they start threatening genocide.

I once had a player play as a donkey barbarian for a session. They couldn’t talk though.

Pippin is - he is the son of the Thane. Hence the Gondorians are technically correct referring to him as “the prince of the halflings”. Merry’s dad is the Master of Buckland - not noble, but definitely the hereditary leader of a community.

Quite. But not definitely not the "win" that the movie presents the outcome as.

And exception amongst a huge pile of cosy crime.

Yeah, there is a lot of social class represented in the Shire. Pippin is ancestral gentry, all breading not actually much money or sense, Merry is new money, pragmatism, wealth, but not much class, and the Baggins's are the best of both. But Sam is working class, and the true hero of the story.