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It’s like people complaining the Lord of the Rings is just all the fantasy tropes. Well they weren’t tropes yet when Tolkien invented them.
by aikinai 5y ago
It’s like people complaining the Lord of the Rings is just all the fantasy tropes. Well they weren’t tropes yet when Tolkien invented them.
- bsder 5y agoWorse, they were counterculture. "Bored of the Rings" came out in 1969. People also forget that fantasy tropes were "evil and satanic" up through about the 1980s.