Second-guessing and Misunderstanding Tolkien

Squint-eyed Southerner said:

I want a movie!

But not by you-know-who. 😉

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Why is J.R. R. Tolkien so overrated and Lord Dunsany (father of modern fantasy) isn't while it's a well known fact that Tolkien got influenced by Lord Dunsany (among other authors) for the Lord of the Rings?

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Squint-eyed Southerner said:

Hey -- I like Dunsany!

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If one does not simply walk into Mordor, how did two Hobbits and a Gollum manage to stroll right in?

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Squint-eyed Southerner said:

Hey -- I like Dunsany!

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How did Sam manage to defeat Shelob so easily? Surely a creature as old and wise as her wouldn't be so foolish?

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Why didn't Gandalf sit in an ivory tower like Winston Churchill saying inspiring things, instead of facing the Witch-king alone and heroic stuff that risked everything?

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Could the other Nazgûl have been destroyed in a similar way to how the witch king was? My feeling was always, yes but it would have required a magical blade or powerful wizardry such as that possessed by Gandalf.

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Why are magic systems in D&D and Lord of the Rings so different?

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Who is greatest, most legendary and most prominent character of Legendarium? Morgoth or Manwe or Tulkas or Feanor or Fingolfin or Eönwe or Fingon or Turin or Hurin or Earendil or Glorfindel or Ecthelion or Sauron or Gothmog or Osse or Aragorn?

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Will the troll go back to the mines of Moria?

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Erestor Arcamen said:

Once in a while he'll have a decent article but then he has gems like that. Those kinds of questions, to me, wouldn't be worth the time to answer. He was also a member here at one point but got banned for I think being disrespectful to others.

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Was it true that Fëanor from The Silmarillion was a "lisper" (as in, preferring the use of "th" instead of "s")? Would he have said "Thilmarilli" instead of "Silmarilli," or "Thauron" instead of "Sauron"?

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