Citations:Tolkienish

Adjective: "of, related to, or characteristic of J. R. R. Tolkien or his writings"

 * 1968, Mary McClelland Lago, "'Re-vision' and William Rothenstein", The Alumnus (Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA), July 1968, page 25:
 * Therefore, when Aubrey Beardsley's drawings go up on the office wall in place of Marilyn Monroe or Tolkienish landscapes labelled "Come to Middle Earth," we may expect to be occupied for a time with a new view of the 1890's.
 * 1970, Richard C. West, Tolkien Criticism: An Annotated Checklist, page 23:
 * Reports on how people amuse themselves with Tolkienish things (Christmas cards in Tengwar, etc.).
 * 1972, Paul H. Kocher, Master of Middle-earth: The Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, page 180:
 * In a suspiciously Tolkienish vein he looks back to the happier past when “there was more time . . . and folk were fewer, so that most men were distinguished”’; “‘villages were proud and independent still in those days.”
 * 1977, Jim Kearney, Wizards movie review, Chacal, Spring 1977, page 59:
 * Wizards is a full-length animated feature which combines elements of sword & sorcery, SF, and light Tolkienish fantasy.
 * 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.
 * 1989, Roe R. Adams, III, "Long Play's Journey Into Light", Computer Gaming World, June 1989, page 32:
 * Note, though, that only the veneer of Journey is Tolkienish, for this game heralds the long awaited return of Zork impresario, Marc Blank, to what should be the best seller list.
 * 1995, Roy Trakin, Tom Hanks: Road to Stardom, page 40:
 * His other role in New York landed him in the lead of a CBS made-for-TV film based on Rona Jaffe's novel, Mazes and Monsters, which dealt with the Tolkienish sword-and-sorcery fantasy game that was a then-current fad on some college campuses.
 * 1996, Roger E. Moore, "Leprechauns & Giant Eagles–Oh My!", Polyhedron, February 1996, page 6:
 * The giant eagle is for players who want something really different and a little Tolkienish.
 * 2003, Lin Carter, Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings, page xii:
 * Far-scattered Tolkienists have for some years past been keeping in touch with each other via the U.S. mails, issuing a number of amateur magazines whose Tolkienish titles, such as Entmoot and I Palantir and Green Dragon and The Tolkien Journal, make no mystery of their principal topic of discussion.
 * 2004, A. S. Byatt, A Whistling Woman, page 342:
 * There were quite a few Tolkienish people in the audience, people with silvery bands round their brows and those sort of flimsy shirts which flared out to pointy cuffs and dangled. Leo didn't like to see them. They looked sort of made-up and unreal, and in some way diminished the shining reality of the Tolkien-world in his head.
 * 2004, Rob N. Hood, Beyond the Wind, page 29:
 * The night definitely had a Tolkienish quality to it — an early autumn evening when hobbits might pass unseen through moonlit meadows.
 * 2005, Stuart Maconie, Cider with Roadies, page 32:
 * In 1967, he'd joined the infamous anarcho-hippie collective John's Children and, upon leaving them, created Tyrannosaurus Rex and made a succession of albums of delicate acoustic Tolkienish folk rock called things like My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair but Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows ; Prophets, Seers and Sages, the Angels of the Ages ; Unicorn; and Beard of Stars.
 * 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.