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  • Elves are as generic as they come in fantasy after all these years post-Tolkien, and these elves -- at least the Elves of the Long Watch -- are VERY Tolkienish.

    What I've Just Read: A Darkness Forged in Fire ewillett 2008

  • Hamilton's elves in the Meredith Gentry series, too -- bordering on Tolkienish, but with that Piniesque hard edge and sexiness.

    Victoria Janssen Victoria Janssen 2009

  • Oddly, even left wing fantasy writers like China Mieville tend to scoff at the possibility that more typical, Tolkienish fantasy could be anything but negative.

    Peace, order and good government, eh?: February 2007 Archives 2007

  • At one point Richard referees an argument between the two writers who created T'Rain's mythology, one an English fantasy writer of Tolkienish linguistic pretension and the other a "freakishly prolific" American from whom ill-conceived lore tumbles by the second.

    NYT > Home Page By TOM BISSELL 2011

  • At one point Richard referees an argument between the two writers who created T'Rain's mythology, one an English fantasy writer of Tolkienish linguistic pretension and the other a "freakishly prolific" American from whom ill-conceived lore tumbles by the second.

    NYT > Home Page By TOM BISSELL 2011

  • To: Weird Tolkienish Figure yes and now we know that community organizers are worth zip to the community. .what a fail

    Latest Articles 2010

  • Is it a Tolkienish variety, perhaps a more Norse variety like Poul Anderson employed, or something a bit different?

    Bookspotcentral 2009

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