Siri, show me very bad takes that contradict facts in Tolkien's autobiographyhttps://twitter.com/JohnsonJeffro/status/1149739357982478336 …
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Right. You know his publisher had no interest in what would ultimately become The Silmarillion. If (as OP claimed) D&D would not have happen without Tolkien creating a demand for it, then you can also say that LotR would not have happened without ERB making a demand for it.
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It's more a case that if not for the field of fiction shaped by Burroughs and those who followed in his footsteps, Tolkien's writings would be but a fascinating if only marginally significant footnote of "literature produced by veterans of World War I".
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Cause and effect over long periods of time and over cultural landscapes. Possible. I think when ppl say western civilization and modern technology could not have existed without Christianity that they're probably right, i.e.
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