Tolkienish

English

Etymology

From Tolkien +‎ -ish.

Adjective

Tolkienish (comparative more Tolkienish, superlative most Tolkienish)

1. Of, related to, or characteristic of J. R. R. Tolkien or his writings.

   Synonyms: Tolkienesque, Tolkienian, Tolkieny

   • 1985 June, Roger Musson, “Stirge Corner”, in Imagine: Adventure Game Magazine, 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^[1], 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^[2], page 301:

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