I loved LOTR when I first read it as a kid... but even then it didn't mean that I wanted the next 50 books I read to be EXACTLY the same. There was this huge 'Tolkienesque' ghetto to wade through as I tried to find new fantasy books to read.
Eventually I found my way to Fritz Leiber and Robert E. Howard and Lord Dunsany and Lovecraft... and all was well.
Back on topic... I can definitely imagine a gritty game of Icelandic fantasy... a kind of spaghetti-western-fantasy... epic but doomed heroes... man against the elements... enchantments and curses... and trolls.
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