The novel's genius perfectly distilledhttps://twitter.com/thomas_violence/status/1432096870264803328 …
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What has Dark Souls done if not remind us of humanity's boundless appetite for fantasy about how everything sucks now
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In its defense, LotR is also relatively hopeful about the post-Sauron future. In the appendix, Aragorn actually does bring about a revival of Gondor. The elves leave and magic mostly passes away, but I think we're to understand, you know, living conditions improved.
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Dark Souls is an interesting kind of example too. The problem there is the 'First Sin' - the decision by one of the gods to try to stop the natural cycle while the gods were on top and the humans on the bottom.
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Creating this sort of downward spiral of mini-ages-of-fire, each one built on the ruins of the last, each one a bit less bright than the last, because the world cannot actually rejuvenate itself.
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I want to be clear I was not being sarcastic at all, fantasy amidst the ruins is tremendously evocative and I consider this one of LotR's outstanding features
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Yeah, no, I get that. I just also think that - like a lot of fantasy tropes - LotR is actually more complex and serious than the imitators it spawned, which often have this 'lost golden age' without LotR's sense that it is lost for a reason and making way for something else.
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