Tolkienchanged the course of fantasy literature.
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This is an extraordinary opportunity.
I’m sure we can recreate his study.
He appears to have succeeded.
He was trying to recreate a history, a pre-Arthurian history," Rhys-Davies says.
“There are still some silly people who say oh, hell be forgotten in 200 years anyway.
Yeah, Im sure they said that about Giraldus Cambrensis too, and the myth of Arthur.
Strong societies depend on the legends and the mythology that they have.”