Tolkienish
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Tolkienish (comparative more Tolkienish, superlative most Tolkienish)
- Of, related to, or characteristic of J. R. R. Tolkien or his writings.
- Synonyms: Tolkienesque, Tolkienian, Tolkieny
- 1985 June, Roger Musson, “Stirge Corner”, in Imagine: Adventure Game Magazine, page 51:
- Most campaigns that I have played in have tended to utilise a sort of Tolkienish semi-medieval background, sometimes not very well developed.
- 1989, Jack Christie, Day Trips from Vancouver[1], page 55:
- Early on, the trail passes a tiny cedar lake with Tolkienish overtones. A hobbit-size table and chairs have been carved out of wooden stumps.
- 2011, Leon Surette, Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia: Literary Modernism and Politics[2], page 301:
- The novel also reflects a Tolkienish nostalgia for an earlier England dominated by the rural squirarchy that Eliot absorbed so completely.