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A Tolkien fan in a The Lord of the Rings fantasy costume, Budapest, 2015. Although fantasy had long existed in various forms around the world before his time, J. R. R. Tolkien has been called the "father of fantasy", and The Lord of the Rings its centre.
While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings led directly to a popular resurgence and the shaping of the modern fantasy genre. This has caused Tolkien to be popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literature [171] [172] —or, more precisely, of ...
Tolkien has been called the "father" of modern fantasy. [14] The author and editor of Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Brian Attebery, writes that fantasy is defined "not by boundaries but by a centre", which is The Lord of the Rings. [15] Many later fantasy writers have either imitated Tolkien's work, or have written in reaction against ...
It was the advent of high fantasy, in particular J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, which allowed fantasy to truly enter into the mainstream. Tolkien had published The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in the 1950s; while the first was a fairy tale fantasy, the second was an epic fantasy that expanded upon the ...
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892 in South Africa and raised in England. He graduated from Oxford, served in World War I and went on to become a professor at his alma mater.
Christopher Tolkien, the son of Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien who helped to expand understanding of the mythical world of Middle-earth, has died. He passed in Provence, France at age 95 ...
Tolkien has been called the "father" of modern fantasy, [31] [32] [33] or more specifically of high fantasy. [34] The result was an outpouring of novels, games, fan fiction , and fantasy artwork all based on, imitative of, or reacting against Tolkien: a wider frame created by many hands using a diverse range of media. [ 35 ]
A year after Mistborn debuted, Robert Jordan's widow selected Sanderson in 2007 to complete the final books in Jordan's epic "Wheel of Time" fantasy series, which in 2021 was adapted into ...