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Nerds Everywhere Lose An Icon

By The Daily Dish
Mar 5 2008, 2:17 AM ET

Dungeons & Dragons creator Gary Gygax has died:

It was Gygax, more than anyone else, who turned Tolkien fandom from a premodern pose into a postmodern, participatory phenomenon.



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