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Tolkienish en · ADJ

Etymology

From Tolkien + -ish.

Meanings

1. Of, related to, or characteristic of J. R. R. Tolkien or his writings.
   • Most campaigns that I have played in have tended to utilise a sort of Tolkienish semi-medieval background, sometimes not very well developed. 1985 June, Roger Musson, “Stirge Corner”, in Imagine: Adventure Game Magazine, page 51:
   • 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. 1989, Jack Christie, Day Trips from Vancouver, page 55:
   • The novel also reflects a Tolkienish nostalgia for an earlier England dominated by the rural squirarchy that Eliot absorbed so completely. 2011, Leon Surette, Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia: Literary Modernism and Politics, page 301:

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Synonyms

Tolkienian · Tolkieny · Tolkienesque