Lord of the rings really ruined the fantasy genre didnt it?

Lord of the rings really ruined the fantasy genre didn’t it?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    there was barely a fantasy genre before it

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >The Hobbit

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It was called mythology and folklore, most of which Tolkien the hack ripped off.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Well Beowulf wasn´t exactly a best seller by then

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Tolkien intended for LOTR to serve as a substitute for the lacking british mythology, not a reason for incels and Black folk to lock themselves into their rooms to larp as kneesock elves on onlyfans.
        He was a catholic, not a D&D-playing schizo-jew.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >their mythology is a patchwork of actual mythologies "borrowed" from other countries
          Tolkien is the British museum of literature.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Britain IS a patchwork of peoples from surrounding countries.
            Their mythology WOULD HAVE BEEN a patchwork if their people weren't too preoccupied with colonizing the world and bringing about industrialization.
            It's not borrowed when your people literally are anglo-saxons, and the source is gathered from the homelands of anglos and saxons.
            You are a dimwit.
            Popculture is a cancer upon history and mythology. Tolkien was not meant as media, but nostalgia.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            That's a lot of cope for a lack of culture, Nigel.
            >It's not borrowed when your people literally are anglo-saxons, and the source is gathered from the homelands of anglos and saxons.
            >newbie thinks Tolkien borrowed only from Anglo-Saxons
            lol

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Anglos and saxons =/= anglo-saxons.
            Scandi myth inherently includes snippets of nordic and baltic myth, tolkien just chose to use more of it.
            Onions you dickhead

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Germanic mythology is his people's mythology because Saxons raped his grandmother
            lol

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            One is derived from the other.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            They're all derived from Indo-European, doesn't mean Greek is the same as Norwegian.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Jasså? Hell meg att Ola, eg ska sle han. Te hans kjær ei kjenner.
            Magert sinn vilk ta åt min vind, o hen fella.
            Bababoii
            I bet thats greek to you as well.
            Fricker who don't know the origin of his own sentence.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >tolkiengay can't type a coherent sentence neither in norwegian nor in english

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It was made popular mostly by Hippies because of all the anti-industrial message, weed, walking trees, hippie like Elves, at least from their pov

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Peak mental illness and forum autism.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard. Lovecraft.etc

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Lovecraft was horror, and while Barsoom was isekai setting it on Mars makes it hard to think of as fantasy.
        Conan was legit fantasy though, although I prefer LOTR and its imitators.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Lovecraft was horror
          Fantastical horror

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Lord Dunsany
      >George MacDonald

  2. 2 years ago
    Chud Anon

    OH LAWD DEM RANGS

    DEM RANGS OF POWAH

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    LOTR is the foundation of fantasy, THEN the muttsharts came and ruined it

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    IQfy homosexual.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yep, every single fantasy after LOTR is a lame LOTR ripoff

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    sneed

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What are good modern fantasy series inspired by ancient Greek, Roman, Persian, Hebrew, Egyptian, Sumerian, Babylonian, Phoenician, Arabian, Indian, Dravidian, Chinese, Balto-Slavic, Celtic, Finnish, Basque and other pre-Indo-Europeans, and even ancient Germanic culture (independently of the many post-Tolkien's derivations)?

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Nah, the damage is negligible. If you really want to see a good story frick up it's medium of choice you read watchmen and then see the unintended consequences the story had on the (cape) comic book landscape.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Lord of the rings really ruined the fantasy genre didn’t it?

    Why don't you blame the shit-eaters who tried to hop on the fantasy wagon despite having no talent rather than a seminal and well-respected titanic work of art of imagination and fiction?

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