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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 9476203" data-attributes="member: 3457"><p>D&D copied it from Anderson with regards to demihumans and humanocentric world view. Gygax wasn't a tolkien fan, the tolkienish elements were added because his players wanted to use them. Gygax was more inspired by Anderson, Fritz Lieber, & Howard with his approach but he was very savvy to add the Tolkien elements. He expected a humanocentric view because the demihumans in Anderson, for example, lived on the fringe between the human world and the faerie world while Tolkien's humanocentrism was built around the idea of the transitioning world as a sort of ur-myth for the modern world.</p></blockquote><p></p>