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“by writing my magnum opus, i will establish myself as the world’s next Tolkien!!” buddy, if you want to be the world’s next tolkien u first gotta get a Ph.D. and write like several articles or translations of folklore
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@Lady I saw something once that was like "If you want to write like Tolkien, don't read people inspired by Tolkien. Don't even read Tolkien. Read what Tolkien was reading: texts on Finnish philology."
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tolkien wasn’t tolkien by being an ideas guy