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Old 10-07-2014, 09:11 AM   #59
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Since nobody mentioned it I will.

Poul Anderson - Three hearts and three lions...
Published 1 year before LOTR.
in 1961, 24 years _after_ _The Hobbit_, and Tolkien was asked for a sequel almost immediately, and it took far longer than a single year to write.

Poul Anderson was very influential, but not on Tolkien. Read up on Michael Moorcock's finding inspiration for Elric in _The Broken Sword_.

Other things to look up (some have been mentioned already in this thread):

- 1896 - The Well at the World's End by William Morris
- 1905 - The Gods of Pegāna by Lord Dunsany
- 1919 - The Moon Pool by A. Merritt
- 1919 - Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell
- 1920 - A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
- 1922 - The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison

Oddly, I'm not finding a good list of fantasy works listed chronologically by publication / authoring / copyright dates --- anyone know of one?
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