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> I'd say he invented the genre No, he really didn't. Clark Ashton Smith, Lord Dunsany, Jack Vance, there plenty of writers and entire magazines devoted to fan
by yolesaber 10y ago
> I'd say he invented the genre
No, he really didn't. Clark Ashton Smith, Lord Dunsany, Jack Vance, there plenty of writers and entire magazines devoted to fantasy.
>Don't sweat it, when you write your world changing, genre defining masterwork, you can make it as deep and morally ambiguous as you please.
Projecting much?
- okey 10y agoI agree he didn't invent the genre, although he certainly helped popularise and develop it. "plenty" perhaps oversells the genre pre-Tolkien, and also afaik Jack Vance didn't start writing until well after The Hobbit was published, so I'm not sure he belongs on your list - William Morris would have been a much better example as a direct precursor to both Tolkien and Lewis.