D&D General Are You There D&D? It's Me, J.R.R. Tol-KEEEEN!

[Mind of tempest]

Thanks for the nightmare image of an ant farm Shire!

termites would be more fitting thri kreen are mantis folk and thus are more related to roaches and termites than ants.

 

[CreamCloud0]

Is some sort of crib notes distilled central thesis of the post out of the question if you’re not writing up the whole thing again?

Or would that be too antithetical to your innate loquacious Snarf-ness?

 

[Lidgar]

Snarf didn't post Snarfs full post.
Snarf is the Chuck Norris of posters....he just has to announce that he's going to post and then.....

Most of Snarf’s posts as I read them:

 

[Hussar]

I assuming you don't mean Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings because that's a baffling assertion.

Heh. Yes, I mean Rowlings. My bad typing on the train.

In any case, AFAIC, modern D&D shares far, far more DNA with JK than JRR and has done so for at least a decade, if not more.

 

[MGibster]

You ever think what LotR would look like with thri-keen instead of hobbits?

When Gandalf figured out the orcs were coming he would have shouted, "Raa-aaa-aaid!"

 

[Mallus]

termites would be more fitting thri kreen are mantis folk and thus are more related to roaches and termites than ants.

Stop correcting my nightmares!

 

[Senior_WotC_Janitor]

Tolkien is overrated. Yeah I said it.

Human language is overrated. Yeah I said it.

 

[Deset Gled]

Human language is overrated. Yeah I said it.

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[Chaltab]

In any case, AFAIC, modern D&D shares far, far more DNA with JK than JRR and has done so for at least a decade, if not more.

I still really just don't see that at all. Other than the Strixhaven tie-in there isn't much harry potter in D&D, and D&D has just as much Tolkien as it has had since the estate sued TSR and forced them to file the serial numbers off. It has gained so many other influences from mad max to anime to HR Geiger that the Tolkien influence has certainly diminished as an overall proportion of what D&D is, but it's not any less.

 

[Maxperson]

I just am not feeling it after losing what I already wrote. Finally start writing, and POOF.

I may come back to it, but seriously, that both sucked and blowed.

So what you are saying is that your work was cast outside the Walls, through the Door of Night, to the Timeless Void?