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Are humans mandatory for a setting to succeed?

Started by Valatar, March 30, 2025, 06:45:07 AM

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bat

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April 04, 2025, 11:21:36 PM
Where exactly did he say this? I looked around and there is a huge variety of human races in the Lord of the Rings alone, (from the Dunedain to the Wild Men to the Wood Woses and many in between} which was written years after The Hobbit, which was a story written for his own children and presumably, not gone into such depth as later works even though a skeleton of The Silmarillion pre-dates The Hobbit, it was very rough. One thing Tolkien undoubtedly said was that he put no allegories into his writing.
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Quote from: bat on April 04, 2025, 11:21:36 PMWhere exactly did he say this? I looked around and there is a huge variety of human races in the Lord of the Rings alone, (from the Dunedain to the Wild Men to the Wood Woses and many in between} which was written years after The Hobbit, which was a story written for his own children and presumably, not gone into such depth as later works even though a skeleton of The Silmarillion pre-dates The Hobbit, it was very rough. One thing Tolkien undoubtedly said was that he put no allegories into his writing.

It was an interview.  He said that hobbits are the quiet, stay at home nature of men, dwarves are the greedy part, elves are something else, and humanity in LotR is too complicated to explain right now.  A quick google search didn't turn it up, but whatever, I read it a long time ago
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