[2025] J.R.R. Tolkien, both the leading practitioner of fantasy and a leading scholar of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and related languages and, at least adjacent

[2025] J.R.R. Tolkien, both the leading practitioner of fantasy and a leading scholar of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and related languages and, at least adjacently, their 'fantasy' myths and stories, argued that the focus of fantasy is not character or plot nor even the protagonist, but the fantasy world and the reader's (vicarious) exploration of it. I wonder how the high-level LARP designers, and players, would respond to that. They clearly put a lot into creating their world and making it compelling, and we might argue that the point of LARP is to give audience a more direct experience of the world than reading or watching or playing on a computer. The article talks mostly of emotional experience (which doesn't exclude the world and its exploration) and plot.