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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5971579" data-attributes="member: 54877"><p>There was this conceit that high level mages in various D&D worlds had ways of getting together, trading spells, complaining about the coffee service, etc. It tended to play up the higher end of magic for those that were more on the high fantasy wavelength.</p><p> </p><p>I disagree with your assessment of LotR popularity, and would state that it has remained popular so long precisely because it emphatically did not cater to the modern mindset. That's one of the reason that Moorcock didn't like it after all, and part of what JRRT addressed in the preface to the second American edition. Myth is not rationalized. When myth starts revealing the truth, it's more akin to intuition than either deductive or inductive reasoning. </p><p> </p><p>Myths have always had a wide range of tones. The more over-the-top stuff in the myths was done to cater to the same instincts that big explosions cater to now. People have always been people. The same Illiad that Achilles going after Hector so explosively also has catalogs of stuff. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> Pysche and Cupid is much more restrained than Zeus looking for his latest way to make Hera mad at him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5971579, member: 54877"] There was this conceit that high level mages in various D&D worlds had ways of getting together, trading spells, complaining about the coffee service, etc. It tended to play up the higher end of magic for those that were more on the high fantasy wavelength. I disagree with your assessment of LotR popularity, and would state that it has remained popular so long precisely because it emphatically did not cater to the modern mindset. That's one of the reason that Moorcock didn't like it after all, and part of what JRRT addressed in the preface to the second American edition. Myth is not rationalized. When myth starts revealing the truth, it's more akin to intuition than either deductive or inductive reasoning. Myths have always had a wide range of tones. The more over-the-top stuff in the myths was done to cater to the same instincts that big explosions cater to now. People have always been people. The same Illiad that Achilles going after Hector so explosively also has catalogs of stuff. :lol: Pysche and Cupid is much more restrained than Zeus looking for his latest way to make Hera mad at him. [/QUOTE]
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