• Thalion@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    The joke being that Tolkien’s fantasy would be the entire legendarium

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      5 months ago

      ahh, I get it. I feel like this joke would work for any fantasy author.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah but JRRT wrote a whole history textbook and invented a language before most fantasy authors were born.

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        5 months ago

        Any author in general is gonna bring some literary ass prose to their fetishes. With Tolkien you get an entire world. With Joyce you get 25 ways to describe a fart fetish.