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  • Of course, it means as much as fantasy novels being described as "tolkienesque".

    Hey-Ho and Up She Rises... Adam Tierney-Eliot 2005

  • Of course, it means as much as fantasy novels being described as "tolkienesque".

    Archive 2005-06-01 Adam Tierney-Eliot 2005

  • While maps are pretty and lend a tolkienesque gravitas to a book, I support Abercrombie wholeheartedly for not wanting to distract from his characters by providing one.

    Neth Space Neth 2008

  • I won't read a book to the end, if it includes tolkienesque elves (and that includes the ones in dragon lance) or dwarves.

    The Laws of Science Fiction Writing 2005

  • The Night Watch marks a new era in fantasy, one in which we are not as readers continually fobbed off into prescribed tolkienesque fantasy landscapes.

    Sergei Lukyanenko : The Night Watch (Heinemann 2006) 2007

  • • Self-players play as themselves, as they would behave as if they were f.ex. dwarfs in a tolkienesque LOTR world.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows mirjame 2009

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