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Some opine that Tolkien started the fantasy genre as we know it. Others opine that he ended it, citing everything that followed as a pale imitation.
by jl6 7y ago
Some opine that Tolkien started the fantasy genre as we know it.
Others opine that he ended it, citing everything that followed as a pale imitation.
- JohnBooty 7y agoIt also falls victim to that thing. That thing where something groundbreaking spawns absolutely countless numbers of (mostly pale) imitations, people experience those imitations first, and then then when they finally experience out the original they find it kind of underwhelming. It's so frustrating!