Anyone here ever read Terry Brooks? His review of SRD's Lord Foul's Bane was included in the softcover version.

His stories take place in the "future". Tolkien's take place in the past.

I wonder if SRD even imagines it being the same planet at all.

Look, no one is going to win any battles here. Tolkien was great. He wrote an entire history. Lord of the Rings represents a very small moment in that history where everything sped up and got resolved in a relatively short period of time. The guy was a literary genius. Donaldson would never have bee...

Right in the beginning of Lord Foul's Bane we find a clue:

TC - "Come on, old man, We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it. We're all in the same boat - one way or another."

Beggar/Creator - "Did we not?"

We!

Foul