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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8494410" data-attributes="member: 6988941">It does make sense. Despite Star Wars having galactic events (implausibly) center around one family's struggles, there is a real sense of a vast living breathing (even when cheesy or inconsistent) universe around them with a long history before and after their era, with numerous interesting conflicts on numerous scales suitable for storytelling or gaming.For all the richness of Tolkien's lore, fundamentally the whole history of his world on some level just exists to set up several existential conflicts with Morgoth and then Sauron. On the one hand it makes Tolkien's dark lords some of the most impressive villains in fiction despite making little in the way of personal appearances and demonstrating little in the way of personality because they are so embedded into the worldbuilding. On the other it makes any story that isn't an important struggle against Morgoth or Sauron feel inconsequential, and it doesn't really leave room for any additional such important struggles to exist not already semi-covered by Tolkien's works. Tolkien did leave the period after the War of the Ring largely undeveloped, but this is because he himself believed it was uninteresting, centering on mundane human conflicts with the existential threat of Sauon defeated and Elves and much of the magic having left the world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8494410, member: 6988941"] It does make sense. Despite Star Wars having galactic events (implausibly) center around one family's struggles, there is a real sense of a vast living breathing (even when cheesy or inconsistent) universe around them with a long history before and after their era, with numerous interesting conflicts on numerous scales suitable for storytelling or gaming. For all the richness of Tolkien's lore, fundamentally the whole history of his world on some level just exists to set up several existential conflicts with Morgoth and then Sauron. On the one hand it makes Tolkien's dark lords some of the most impressive villains in fiction despite making little in the way of personal appearances and demonstrating little in the way of personality because they are so embedded into the worldbuilding. On the other it makes any story that isn't an important struggle against Morgoth or Sauron feel inconsequential, and it doesn't really leave room for any additional such important struggles to exist not already semi-covered by Tolkien's works. Tolkien did leave the period after the War of the Ring largely undeveloped, but this is because he himself believed it was uninteresting, centering on mundane human conflicts with the existential threat of Sauon defeated and Elves and much of the magic having left the world. [/QUOTE]

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