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Dervish
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Like Jorick said, pretty much all of Lovecraft's work is short stories that aren't related in any way. A lot of it is stuff he was commissioned to write or that he submitted to magazines.
Tolkein, on the other hand, spent a massive chunk of his life developing the lore, languages, world building and an obscenely huge history for Middle Earth just to to set up the Lord of the Rings. It's decades of work and development compared to a few months per story.
Tolkein, on the other hand, spent a massive chunk of his life developing the lore, languages, world building and an obscenely huge history for Middle Earth just to to set up the Lord of the Rings. It's decades of work and development compared to a few months per story.