If he's struggling with Tolkien...what will he think of Chronicles of Narnia? LOL!
He's sort of starting backwards. With the one's that subverted the trope, as opposed to the one's that originated many of the tropes that the later writers are subverting - Tolkien, CS Lewis, McCaffrey, Stoker, Anne Rice, Terry Brooks....(although he's actually recent), Piers Anthony, etc.
And you're right the whole D&D roleplaying game bit was right off of Tolkien.
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Date: 2012-03-06 08:36 pm (UTC)LOL!
He's sort of starting backwards. With the one's that subverted the trope, as opposed to the one's that originated many of the tropes that the later writers are subverting - Tolkien, CS Lewis, McCaffrey, Stoker, Anne Rice,
Terry Brooks....(although he's actually recent), Piers Anthony, etc.
And you're right the whole D&D roleplaying game bit was right off of Tolkien.