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Originally Posted by EltonRobb
So. Tell me, which would you prefer to build? A knock of Tolkien, or something original?
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When I ran a Tolkien-inspired fantasy campaign, it was set in Middle-Earth—though an alternate history Middle-Earth where Sauron caught Frodo sneaking over the border, took the One Ring back, and all the PCs were in the Resistance.
In a vague way, my current fantasy campaign is of Tolkienian inspiration: it has seven humanoid races, including analogs of men, elves, dwarves, hobbits, orcs, and trolls. But the geography, cultures, and history are entirely different, and I have set aside Tolkien's concept of good and evil races entirely; rather, each of the races has its own forms of good and evil.
Otherwise, my fantasy worlds have been either taken directly from fiction not by Tolkien (E.R. Eddison and Terry Pratchett, for example) or entirely invented.