[ SECRET POST #2882 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2882 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

THIS, thank you, let me love you!

I think it's interesting that a lot of these pastiches add tropes that Tolkien himself actually seemed to subvert.

A big one is the whole "Chosen One saves the world" thing. Which, if you read Lord of The Rings... being "chosen" by the Ring was NOT a good thing. At all. Ever. And Frodo didn't save the world. At the last minute he chickened out and it was mostly accidental. Which is kind of anticlimactic and very different from a lot of these Tolkien-expy stories.

With the focus on "The Chosen One" and the Big Hero Guy or whatever you want to call him, it also misses the fact that there wasn't ONE Big Hero Guy in LoTR. There were several! It was about teamwork and friendship and family.

So, yeah - a lot of these stories /try/ to imitate Tolkien but they're kind of missing the point, and they just don't have the background and wealth of knowledge in other areas that Tolkien had.