User blog comment:MrCents 04/Subject 1 : Tolkien Influence Article/@comment-34817371-20181114132828

I favor deletion for one reason. These tidbits about nods and homages to Tolkien's work should be in the trivia of their respective pages rather than just be a seperate page altogether. I don't think these references absolutely need to be made official to be added to trivia because here's the thing about Tolkien's work, nearly all fantasy today is based on it in one way or another, especially D&D. Today's vision of goblins, orcs, elves, dwarves, and other races are mostly based off Tolkien's rendition of them. So it is inevitable that a fantasy novel is going to be influenced by Tolkien's works, either directly or indirectly. However, if these are moved to trivia, it'd be better to rephrase them as possible references instead i.e. "could be a reference to" "possible nod to"