If you want to talk about middle earth in the context of a tabletop war game, rpg, card game, board game, etc., then have at it, but Tolkien himself, his books, and general lore are not Veeky Forums.
Tolkien started his worldbuilding from languages. Is it the thing that makes his legendarium so special...
Tyler Cook
Elijah Thomas
With a healthy dose of "People like these authors who I hate more than these authors who I believe are clearly superior; therefore everyone is stupid, the world is getting dumber, and literature is doomed."
Brayden Scott
It is so special because he is one of the first, if not the first, to do that type and absolute depth of world building for his writing.
Not only was he one of the first, but his world building was extremely thorough and of excellent quality.
He basically did it sooner and better than everyone else. Now, this is not to say others have not also done excellent jobs at world building, but he set such a high standard long before others were even attempting the same
Luke Wright
I always liked the Hobbit more myself.
Colton Garcia
>literature is doomed
well moorcock can thank himself for contributing to that one
Michael Price
Not Goddamn Epic Pooh again. I hate that fucking article and it seems to stick it's fucking head up every time I forget about it.
Adrian Rodriguez
Well, there is this counter article.
>curtisweyant.com
Nicholas Flores
I think most of that is actually DnD and Warhammer ripping off his stuff and somehow making it worse.
Ryan James
>Quid
>Waterstones
Not English here but, I just buy paperback because they're cheaper. I can buy 2 paperbacks for almost the price of 1 hardback.
Alexander Roberts
I find BL paperbacks to be somewhat price-inflated. Grabbing one at random, 400 pages of Dabnett jumping the Ghosts over a flaming vat of sharks is $8 cover price, the same as fucking Shogun.