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Tolkien is awesome because he was not only a successful fantasy writer, but he rewrote the mythology that his story was based on to the point that most people assume that Middle Earth lore is real and the original mythology is false. He ranks up there with Gary Gygax and Wikipedia as far as rewriting history goes.

I still think there are a lot of good fantasy games out there. I think the biggest change is my personal tastes towards games, not the games themselves. My little brother is 10 years younger than me and he loves all sorts of games I think are absolutely awful. But then I remember playing games in the 90s that were awful and thinking they were great at the time.