it made the worldbuilding seem so fucking boring when i finally read the Silmarillion only to find out the pantheon is monotheistic, the lesser gods basically archangels, and even worse in stupid trad roles. no warrior sex goddesses like ishtar or even a freya.
i was raised catholic so definately got some flashbacks to CCD and the lore.
Micheal Moorcock wins again as the dopest old school fantasy guy. and he's a comrade. law vs chaos, no good or evil. chaos can be fucked (like 40k) or awesome (communism/anarchism), law can be fucked (unyielding rigidity) or tolerable (law gods that fight lovecraftian chaos entities).
For me, Tolkein's work has a timeless, life-affirming, childhood bedtime story quality that the WH / WH40K stuff can't really match. That's all more like a saturday morning cartoon, great for when I want to just get high on a weekend and watch some big pew pew lasergun space fights.
moorcock is the inspiration for 40k but he's an OG (1960s-80s) fantasy author. you'd be surprised how much modern fantasy came from his stuff.
it's just the more mind bending, multi-dimensional questing kind of fantasy. the stuff that inspired not just 40k but D&Ds planescape, hell most of D&D in general, and any fantasy that abandons the standard human-elf-dwarf and also says fuck you to monarchies and hierarchical systems.
but i still like tolkien his stuff is more cozy def.
I was raised by atheists, so this was totally fine by me and being a Tolkien nerd has made me able to wrap my head around some of the weirder metaphysics of catholicism.
That's basically how I take it. I'm a Tolkien nerd cause I like mythology. I'm generally super not into the fantasy genre so to speak. And since I don't believe in it, catholicism is also a mythology and it's interesting enough to check out. I literally thought people took god as seriously as Santa Claus or the tooth fairy until I was like...6. Until you get to my great grandparents my family are atheists, so I'm coming at all this from a pretty outside perspective as well.
it made the worldbuilding seem so fucking boring when i finally read the Silmarillion only to find out the pantheon is monotheistic, the lesser gods basically archangels, and even worse in stupid trad roles. no warrior sex goddesses like ishtar or even a freya.
i was raised catholic so definately got some flashbacks to CCD and the lore.
Micheal Moorcock wins again as the dopest old school fantasy guy. and he's a comrade. law vs chaos, no good or evil. chaos can be fucked (like 40k) or awesome (communism/anarchism), law can be fucked (unyielding rigidity) or tolerable (law gods that fight lovecraftian chaos entities).
For me, Tolkein's work has a timeless, life-affirming, childhood bedtime story quality that the WH / WH40K stuff can't really match. That's all more like a saturday morning cartoon, great for when I want to just get high on a weekend and watch some big pew pew lasergun space fights.
moorcock is the inspiration for 40k but he's an OG (1960s-80s) fantasy author. you'd be surprised how much modern fantasy came from his stuff.
it's just the more mind bending, multi-dimensional questing kind of fantasy. the stuff that inspired not just 40k but D&Ds planescape, hell most of D&D in general, and any fantasy that abandons the standard human-elf-dwarf and also says fuck you to monarchies and hierarchical systems.
but i still like tolkien his stuff is more cozy def.
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I was raised by atheists, so this was totally fine by me and being a Tolkien nerd has made me able to wrap my head around some of the weirder metaphysics of catholicism.
catholicism did have some interesting worldbuilding for a christian religion
That's basically how I take it. I'm a Tolkien nerd cause I like mythology. I'm generally super not into the fantasy genre so to speak. And since I don't believe in it, catholicism is also a mythology and it's interesting enough to check out. I literally thought people took god as seriously as Santa Claus or the tooth fairy until I was like...6. Until you get to my great grandparents my family are atheists, so I'm coming at all this from a pretty outside perspective as well.