At first glance, no one would think that J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Andrzej Sapkowki’s Witcher series could have anything to do with each other. After all, Sapkowski represents a completely different, modern style of fantasy that is more akin to George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire than to The Lord of the Rings.
But if you take a closer look, you will discover very clear references to Tolkien among the many different influences in the Witcher books. What’s more, Sapkowski adopts Tolkien’s elves, dwarves and, above all, hobbits with their exact appearance and all their characteristic features, without changing them significantly. However, he places them in completely different contexts and thus shows them in a completely new light, which will be demonstrated in the lecture using the corresponding text examples.
Der Beitrag Hobbits in a bloodlust erschien zuerst auf MAGICCON.
