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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 490558" data-attributes="member: 151">Does that mean the only games that have relevance to you are ones in the which the players are the only ones (or the most likely ones) to save the world?  I don't see anything wrong with that, but I certainly think are plenty of good tales to be told, in Tolkein or out, that don't require the main characters to have vast sweeping effects on the world around them.  A war-party of hobbits (including the Bullroarer) would feel like an exciting game to me, as would an adventure to seek out the Entwives, or any number of stories hinted at in the narrative.  YMMV.Well, this is a matter for debate, of course.  One thing that Tolkein was fairly clear on in both the preface to the special edition and parts of the 2nd Edition Silmarillion's opening letter was that Tolkein truly disliked people interpeting his work, particularly with regards to the second World War.  Tolkein stated quite clearly that one of his goals with Middle-Earth was to create a British mythology, since Britain lacked one far more than Ireland, Wales or Scotland.  The only mythology he saw was Arthurian tales, and those were hardly purely british, in any event.  Mythology grows and changes with it's audience.  I don't see it as a terrible thing if people interpert and possibly even invent more mythology within it....Tolkein may have even wanted that, after a fashion.  This is the first time that I've heard that LotR was specifically about British history and Catholicism, though.  Could you go more into that, as I'm honestly curious?  As for the Celtic Twilight, I thought that was a collection by Yeats.  Was it the basis or based-on a greater literary movement?</blockquote>

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