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.
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.