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<blockquote data-quote="tx7321" data-source="post: 3225897" data-attributes="member: 43146">Charelsatan: &quot;Uh, when you're denying that the likes of T.H. White and le Guin aren't popular, I think your argument starts falling apart.I'll be honest: I haven't heard of Book of Three. But as pointed out, just because I haven't heard of it doesn't mean it wasn't popular.T.H. White and le Guin I've read recently (recently being the past four years) but even before that, I've heard of them.&quot;I get the feeling these books were at least 90% classic fantasy (sword and sorcerer stuff) with just a little bit of odd-ball stuff (wizards donning armor etc.).&nbsp; Is that correct?Secondly, lets say all these books were as popular as &quot;The Hobbit&quot; and LOTR series.&nbsp; There still chump change compared to the classic story book fairy tales which reach back 100s of years, the ones&nbsp; we were introduced to in our childhood.&nbsp; And thats why Gygax focused on a more &quot;classic fantasy&quot; setting (with MUs not wearing armor, and fighters not casting spells). BTW, I wasn't denying that books have solo archetypes or like teams as the heroes in books...far from it.&nbsp; Whats interesting to me however, is that for what ever reason, all of the classic anthropological Archetypes are present in 1E, if you really look.&nbsp;&nbsp; Of course, this oddity is of no interest to anyone here but me.&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp; And no, I don't think this was intentionally done by Gygax.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tx7321, post: 3225897, member: 43146"] Charelsatan: "Uh, when you're denying that the likes of T.H. White and le Guin aren't popular, I think your argument starts falling apart. I'll be honest: I haven't heard of Book of Three. But as pointed out, just because I haven't heard of it doesn't mean it wasn't popular. T.H. White and le Guin I've read recently (recently being the past four years) but even before that, I've heard of them." I get the feeling these books were at least 90% classic fantasy (sword and sorcerer stuff) with just a little bit of odd-ball stuff (wizards donning armor etc.). Is that correct? Secondly, lets say all these books were as popular as "The Hobbit" and LOTR series. There still chump change compared to the classic story book fairy tales which reach back 100s of years, the ones we were introduced to in our childhood. And thats why Gygax focused on a more "classic fantasy" setting (with MUs not wearing armor, and fighters not casting spells). BTW, I wasn't denying that books have solo archetypes or like teams as the heroes in books...far from it. Whats interesting to me however, is that for what ever reason, all of the classic anthropological Archetypes are present in 1E, if you really look. Of course, this oddity is of no interest to anyone here but me. :D And no, I don't think this was intentionally done by Gygax. [/QUOTE]

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