Tolkienish

Tolkienish

English

Etymology

Tolkien +‎ -ish

Adjective

Tolkienish (comparative more Tolkienish, superlative most Tolkienish)

1. Of, related to, or characteristic of J. R. R. Tolkien or his writings.
   • 1985, Roger Musson, "Stirge Corner", Imagine: Adventure Game Magazine, June 1985, page 51:

     Most campaigns that I have played in have tended to utilise a sort of Tolkienish semi-medieval background, sometimes not very well developed.

   • 1989, Jack Christie, Day Trips from Vancouver, page 55:

     Early on, the trail passes a tiny cedar lake with Tolkienish overtones. A hobbit-size table and chairs have been carved out of wooden stumps.

   • 2011, Leon Surette, Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia: Literary Modernism and Politics, page 301:

     The novel also reflects a Tolkienish nostalgia for an earlier England dominated by the rural squirarchy that Eliot absorbed so completely.

   Synonyms: Tolkienesque, Tolkienian, Tolkieny