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Old 07-06-2013, 08:07 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I find it inconceivable that anyone could claim to be a fantasy fan and not have read "The Lord of the Rings" - the book which essentially created the fantasy genre. "I've seen the movies" is not a good reason .
And "essentially created the the fantasy genre" is a bit of a stretch, Harry The success of LotR certainly had a big impact on its modern popularity, but he didn't create it. Tolkien acknowledges influences from William Morris and George MacDonald - both are authors of fiction recognised as fantasy now, even if it may have been called something different at the time (eg: Prose romances). And you can keep going back and back, finding more that - today - would be called fantasy (if they could find a publisher).
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