Literary Inspiration in Designing TFT:ITL Underworld Adventures

[JLV]

Originally Posted by Jim Kane

Not trite at all JLV; in fact, would you agree that your cite, may very well be one of the finest - if not one of the most famous - literary examples of what one person's vision of the Underworld can be?

JK

Oh, yes, very much so. Of course it also helps that Tolkien certainly had a gift for descriptive language... ;-)

Mind you, I've read plenty of other novels that included things somewhat similar, but they often seemed very derivative... (The Sword of Shannara, of course, positively leaps to mind in that regard -- though the Hall of Kings showed some positively creative aspects for underground adventuring...)