(urth) The Distant Suns of Gene Wolfe

[Recursive Loop]

Greetings:

"One observation....  I've heard that Tolkien's work was a large inspiration for the Dungeon and
Dragons tabletop games."

There were a lot of things that inspired D&D. Vance is one, Tolkien is another. So is Leiber,
(Lin) Carter, (Edgar Rice) Burroughs and more. Even H.P. Lovecraft. His creations such as Cthulhu
and others showed up at one point, until TSR got a "cease and desist" order. Either Tolkien or his
estate did the same thing, so "hobbits" in early editions became "halflings" in later editions,
even though we all knew what they were...

FPK3



       
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