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<blockquote data-quote="Guest User" data-source="post: 8109973"><p>In Basic you did not pick a race....Elf, Dwarf, Hobbit were classes.</p><p>Only Magic Users and Rangers could use crystal balls.....why?....</p><p>.......<em>because it matches the Palintir in LotR.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The Valley Elves are called grey elves, and live in a magically enshrouded vale protected by the Mage of the Vale.</em></p><p></p><p>The Silmarillion was published in 1977. Valley Elves clearly are influenced by Thingol's people.</p><p></p><p>D&D has wargaming roots, because those wargamers wanted to play in battles described in the LotR books. People want to create the Battle of Five Armies and so forth....then they wanted to narrow their scope and play the heroes.</p><p></p><p>The Conan stories were published in the 1920's.....some stories feature large scale battles....none of the stories impact was sufficient for someone to produce D&D.</p><p></p><p>The popularity and wide spread influence of the Lord of the Rings books, in Europe and North America, is what set the stage for the genesis of D&D, and D&D's <em>obvious</em> similarity to Tolkien is what made it a commercial success.</p><p></p><p>There is no D&D without Lord of the Rings.</p><p></p><p>Led Zeppelin doesn't reference Mazirian the Magician, Ningauble of the Nine Eyes, or the Scrolls of Skelos in their music.</p><p></p><p>Flat Earthers don't believe in a spherical earth, but the influence of the spherical shape of our planet, is more then "modest".</p><p></p><p>If some folks want to be D&D "Flat Earthers"...go right ahead....but it is silly.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤦" title="Person facepalming :person_facepalming:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f926.png" data-shortname=":person_facepalming:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guest User, post: 8109973"] In Basic you did not pick a race....Elf, Dwarf, Hobbit were classes. Only Magic Users and Rangers could use crystal balls.....why?.... .......[I]because it matches the Palintir in LotR. The Valley Elves are called grey elves, and live in a magically enshrouded vale protected by the Mage of the Vale.[/I] The Silmarillion was published in 1977. Valley Elves clearly are influenced by Thingol's people. D&D has wargaming roots, because those wargamers wanted to play in battles described in the LotR books. People want to create the Battle of Five Armies and so forth....then they wanted to narrow their scope and play the heroes. The Conan stories were published in the 1920's.....some stories feature large scale battles....none of the stories impact was sufficient for someone to produce D&D. The popularity and wide spread influence of the Lord of the Rings books, in Europe and North America, is what set the stage for the genesis of D&D, and D&D's [I]obvious[/I] similarity to Tolkien is what made it a commercial success. There is no D&D without Lord of the Rings. Led Zeppelin doesn't reference Mazirian the Magician, Ningauble of the Nine Eyes, or the Scrolls of Skelos in their music. Flat Earthers don't believe in a spherical earth, but the influence of the spherical shape of our planet, is more then "modest". If some folks want to be D&D "Flat Earthers"...go right ahead....but it is silly.🤦 [/QUOTE]
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