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<blockquote data-quote="Parmandur" data-source="post: 7265740" data-attributes="member: 6780330">I think your approach is the most reasonable, and I agree with it broadly. It's an old rule of thumb that the truth lies between two errors...but one of the errors is closer to the reality. &quot;Tolkienian Maximalism&quot; and &quot;Tolkienian Minimalism&quot; are both errors: there is plenty of Tolkien influence in D&amp;D from the root, but not the be-all, end-all. However, when the &quot;Tolkien Maximalist&quot; incorrectly says that D&amp;D got named magic swords or Dragons from Tolkien, they do note a commonality that exists in reality, though they are wrong to attribute causality to that resemblence.Trying to deny that Rangers were originally modeled on Aragorn and his preternatural exploits, or that Halflings are Hobbits from Tolkien, on the other hand, is just...plain untrue. Whatever Gygax said after the lawyers got their work done.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Parmandur, post: 7265740, member: 6780330"] I think your approach is the most reasonable, and I agree with it broadly. It's an old rule of thumb that the truth lies between two errors...but one of the errors is closer to the reality. "Tolkienian Maximalism" and "Tolkienian Minimalism" are both errors: there is plenty of Tolkien influence in D&D from the root, but not the be-all, end-all. However, when the "Tolkien Maximalist" incorrectly says that D&D got named magic swords or Dragons from Tolkien, they do note a commonality that exists in reality, though they are wrong to attribute causality to that resemblence. Trying to deny that Rangers were originally modeled on Aragorn and his preternatural exploits, or that Halflings are Hobbits from Tolkien, on the other hand, is just...plain untrue. Whatever Gygax said after the lawyers got their work done. [/QUOTE]

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