The RPG Brain Trust group on Facebook is proving amazing, with a lot of quality material in the comments. Rather than let them languish, I'm going to repost some of the choicest ones here.
But then, both Tolkien and Leiber describe combat in a much more realistic manner than the typical DnD narrative. Once a weapon strikes home, the fight is usually over, or at least nearly so. So the fit is far from perfect.
