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LOTR was already a mainstream novel when they wrote about it. Sure it wasn’t on TV but people that read novels surely knew about it and had read it by then.
by Schnitz 4y ago
LOTR was already a mainstream novel when they wrote about it. Sure it wasn’t on TV but people that read novels surely knew about it and had read it by then.
- gpderetta 4y agoWell, it was one of the most well known fantasy novels, but I'm not sure I would consider it mainstream as the genre itself was (and is) fairly niche. The Silmarillion is still very niche today, even among fans of LotR.
- KineticLensman 4y ago> Well, it was one of the most well known fantasy novels, but I'm not sure I would consider it mainstream as the genre itself was (and is) fairly niche. In the UK at least, a 2003 BBC poll with almost three quarters of a million votes [0] put LoTR first, as the nation's best loved novel > The Silmarillion is still very niche today, even among fans of LotR. Agree. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Read
- sigstoat 4y ago> In the UK at least, a 2003 BBC poll with almost three quarters of a million votes [0] put LoTR first that would be after two years of the movie trilogy being in theaters, and coincident with the release of the third movie? i think the release of the films marks a rather critical point in how the books were viewed.
- KineticLensman 4y ago> i think the release of the films marks a rather critical point in how the books were viewed. Two years before the films (same source) in a 1999 poll of Amazon.com customers, The Lord of the Rings was judged to be their favourite "book of the millennium".
- gpderetta 4y agoInteresting! The British do like Fantasy! Harry Potter would probably be even higher today, and I would have expected Pratchett to be higher.