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Not necessarily all that different. As the story goes, Gygax didn't like* LOTR, and only included hobbits, for example, because he had players who did like it and insisted on their presence and availability. Well, I guess it depends on how different you consider it to be without halflings...

I'll admit that my LOTR-knowledge is not encyclopedic, but as I recall there were maybe two mentions of piglike noses and none of orc tusks that imply literal boarlike tusks. Orcs being literally pig-faced/-headed/-snouted seems to have become more common somewhere around Advanced Dungeons &...

The ancient Gauls didn't start out speaking any kind of Latin... To be frank*, we may be heading towards the lingustic equivalent of "Aliens must have helped building Macchu Picchu and Great Zimbabwe, but Akropolis and Chartres Cathedral were obviously built by humans using the technology...

I'm sure the linked-to discussion and blogposts covers most of it, but immediate thought: Fewer or none twelve-part trilogies and no halflings as a standard part of generic fantasy. As has already been mentioned, fantasy existed well before Lord of The Ring was published (coming at it from an...

Yes, what about it? Does it qualify as a creole or just as a language that developed from Ingvaonic and along the way, as the saying goes, "occasionally pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary"? If nothing else, Old English did...

It's not as if there was much of an alternative to be influenced by and adopt from...

Well, I'm not sure all languages can be summed up/dismissed as "grew out of an illiterate Roman soldier trying to buy eggs from an illiterate Gaulish farmer" or its equivalent, but there's certainly an argument to be made for the case. One of the key questions is "When does a creole language...

An even older one, so old that it is no longer talked about as a creole by others than nit-pickers and anglocentric trolls: French.

I can't work/figure out if Hi Jolly was Muslim or not, but... mumble mumble handwave compare the "Afghans" in Australia mumble handwave butterfly (Australia's first mosque may have been as early as 1861.) Sidenote: Also I'm not sure tolerate is the most accurate word for how the Protestant...

A kingdom, whether it thinks of itself as English or Norwegian (or Danish or Scots or Flemish or...) that focuses on/controls the North Sea would not be a tiny island at the end of the world in the eyes of Europe. The North Sea is not the sea with Iceland and the Faroe Islands, it's the sea with...

People were talking about the possibility of more Celtic or Dutch influence... That makes sense considering what (from what I know) did happen, but I've been given the impression that the norse assimilated more in England. It's not as if otl English is lacking in nordic loan words... (Not ideal...

My bold, as I note that what people appear to be discussing (and what one expects from the title) is "What if Harald Godwinson won?" not "What if Norwegian guy won instead of the Norman one?"

Because phrasing matters: "more interesting": I see your Gustav Vasa and raise you Gustav II Adolf, Christina and Karl XII, all of whom qualify as 17th century monarchs. "more attention on this forum": Why, yes, as others have mentioned, the one who is usually considered the founder of the...

Sigh... Let me spell it out, then: The one you want to argue with, the one who made the statement* you disagree with, is Geaux On And On in Post 3. *Which, as far as I can tell, is that the ones who would do the actual fighting wouldn't be too keen on the idea.

Sigh... Let me summarise this tangent, as I understand it: Geaux On And On, replying to mspence (Post 3): [comparison with Patton's willingness to go to war with the Soviet Union in 1945] Osman Aga, replying to Geaux On And On (Post 4, now edited): What does Patton has to do with this? You...

It's still an on-topic answer to the question.

I don't know... "The US in June 1865 was about as willing and able to invade Mexico and start a war with France as the US in June 1945 was to invade the Soviet Union" does sound like an on-topic answer to "Could the US have started a war with Mexico/France right after the civil war ended?"

Moving the goalposts What you asked for was: A collaborationist government, later amended to a puppet state A large amount of German soldiers stationed there ("to stop rebellions", which admittedly opens up for quibbling) The encouraging of fascist and pro-nazi thinking Norway had all of...

It was a puppet state. Are those goalposts you're carrying?

Norway's government was so collaborationist that the name of its leader became synonymous with the worst kind of collaborator... And if memory serves, Norway had the highest per capita number of German troops stationed. It didn't help.