I'm in the process of reading The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft and there was an interesting brief comparison of the fantasies of Tolkien and Lovecraft (both bor

I'm in the process of reading The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft and there was an interesting brief comparison of the fantasies of Tolkien and Lovecraft (both born within ~2 years of each other). While Tolkien's fantasy world is structured, ordered, able to be understood, and extremely detailed by its author, Lovecraft's fantasy world is unstructured, chaotic, any attempts at comprehension result in madness, and leaves much to the imagination by its author[0]. As a huge fan of Tolkien, D&D, and the typical fantasy tropes, reading Lovecraft as a sort of antithesis of Tolkien is very refreshing. [0] Sadly, could also be because Lovecraft passed at a much younger age.