Tolkienish

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English

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Etymology

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From Tolkien +‎ -ish.

Adjective

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Tolkienish (comparative more Tolkienish, superlative most Tolkienish)

  1. 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.