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

[MGibster]

So the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon was portal fantasy?

 

[Bedrockgames]

So the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon was portal fantasy?

I don't know what it was called as a genre, but I remember a lot of shows with that kind of premise back then

 

[Paul Farquhar]

So the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon was portal fantasy?

Indeed. As was Alice in Wonderland and The Phoenix and the Carpet. It’s a pretty old genre.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

I once played a bug-man bard named J.R.R. Thri-Kreen

 

[haakon1]

I don't know what it was called as a genre, but I remember a lot of shows with that kind of premise back then

D&D the Cartoon, Land of the Lost …

 

[billd91]

Now I do think people want to pay authors for their work but there is this notion that they should be artists putting their passion into their writing. Rowlings denouncement of the genre she´s writing in is akin to an admittance that it was "just business, nothing personal" and the whole of the HP franchise suddenly turns in to one big cash grab. As someone who likes writing myself (but doesn´t make money of it) I do understand this sentiment while the realist in me understands that everything that can make money can be boiled down to a cash grab.

Cash grab? Well, it got her off the dole so, in that sense, it was. But shouldn't having a drive to write a particular story even while on government assistance count as a passion? Should we diminish the passion of an author's drive to write simply because they are successful and can make a living at it?
Unfortunately, now that she's stupid rich, she's developed a passion for transphobia and denying that one of my kids exists. So, my defense of her history will only go so far. You're a big disappointment, Jo. You and Neil. (I mean, JESUS, NEIL! WTF?)

 

[billd91]

It also helps that Tolkien never had access to a Twitter account where he aired his most loathsome opinions for the world to see. People are not inclined to see anything Rowling says or does in a favorable light these days.

We do have plenty of his letters, though. And he's not exactly skimming the bottom of the trough in them either. Of course, writing a letter takes a bit more consideration and engagement of the brain than a 140 (or so, what is the limit now?) character tweet, so he has that going for him and his reputation as being reasonably upstanding.

 

[dbolack]

We do it all the time. Nobody in 1450 suddenly said, "And there's the end of the Middle Ages, we are now starting the Early Modern period!" The term Industrial Revolution was created in the 1880s to describe what had happened in Great Britain from the 1760s through the 1830s. This is just how we interpret the past.

This is an entirely different thing.

 

[dbolack]

I don't know what it was called as a genre, but I remember a lot of shows with that kind of premise back then

Kidd Video!

I'd never thought about Lost Worlds in this light before, but that makes sense as a strong overlap.

 

[MGibster]

This is an entirely different thing.

I do not see it that way. I'm reminded of emic and etic perspectives from my social science courses. The emic is an insider's perspective, one that makes sense to an insider even if they might not agree with it. The etic perspective is that of an outsider, one an inside may or may not agree with. Yacht Rock is an etic perspective, and it's valid no matter what Steely Dan might think.