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Interesting survey about a favorite author of mine.

Done for you:)

What a fantastic topic to write a dissertation about - I wish my college days had been as enjoyable as yours clearly are.

Survey submission on the way.

What a wonderful topic for a dissertation. Tolkien is one of my all-time favorites so this survey was a delight.

All the best to you with your studies.

I wrote my first published novel because I was inspired by Tolkien : The Elf Lord's Revenge

Done :-)

Did the survey!

Great topic. I hope you come back and share your dissertation with us. Best of luck to you.

I mentioned it when I filled out the survey, but...track down Tolkien's essay "On Fairy Stories" and give it a read. It articulates a lot of his motivation and perspective.

I enjoyed taking part in your survey, Emily. I hope you find my contribution of use and that all goes well with your dissertation.

I guess I'm the only fantasy author who hasn't read Tolkien, nor do I ever intend to. I still completed your survey though.

I presume you have enough replies, I do hope so, I did not fill it. There were couple of things I could not honestly answer - like if I was using a race of elves based on another book series altogether, which probably did get their inspiration from JRRT but modified it heavily, would I be right or wrong to tick that box? Also a lot of plot elements mentioned like Quest/Journey go back to Gilgamesh, so if I pick that, is it sure I did it because of JRRT, and not because of Moses or Star Wars or some such?