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[squirrelsunite]

"Lord of the Rings is more or less the foundation of modern D&D. The latter rose from the former, although the two are now so estranged that to reunite them would be an act of savage madness. Imagine a gaggle of modern hack-n-slash role-players who had somehow never been exposed to the original Tolkien mythos, and then imagine taking those players and trying to introduce them to Tolkien via a D&D campaign."
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612

And then the same treatment to Star Wars, Ep. 1
http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/darthsanddroids/episodes/0001.html