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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Del Rey did have a major impact on fantasy as a genre. Probably not a good one. It feels like much of the high fantasy Tolkien-clones are due to his input.
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I'd argue, more charitably, that it made "high fantasy" a viable genre, which allowed both good (and bad) authors to take it up as a vocation where they might not otherwise have been able.