JacktheRabbit
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Re: Re: Re: Questions about EGG
I find it amazing that no matter how many times Tolkien has been quoted in the past saying there was no link between LOTR and WW2 people still find some excuse (subconcious inclusion) to add it in. Even when LOTR and WW2 are very different items.
Yet one word from EGG is all that is needed to make people think there is little or no LOTR influence in the design of DnD. Even though the similarities are glaringly obvious, ents anyone?
I find it amazing that no matter how many times Tolkien has been quoted in the past saying there was no link between LOTR and WW2 people still find some excuse (subconcious inclusion) to add it in. Even when LOTR and WW2 are very different items.
Yet one word from EGG is all that is needed to make people think there is little or no LOTR influence in the design of DnD. Even though the similarities are glaringly obvious, ents anyone?
WizarDru said:
From what I gather from the preface to my collected edition of LotR, Tolkein had heard similar commentary during his lifetime, and didn't much prefer that interpetation. His introduction to the edition I picked up last year pretty much makes it clear that he didn't intentionally make an allegory of the second World War, and pointed out somethings that should have been different, had he chosen to do so.
Mind you, I think he did emulate some of that experience on a subconcious level, but I think it's the desire to see a pattern that helps us down that road.