false<![CDATA[Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167428371m/23596.jpg235964 A superb collection, a splendid and much-needed book. Anderson has cleared away the dross & shown us the golden roots of fantasy before it became a genre.--Michael Moorcock, author of The Eternal Champion
Many of today's top names in fantasy acknowledge J.R.R. Tolkien as the author whose work inspired them to create their own epics. But which writers influenced Tolkien? In a collection destined to become a classic, internationally recognized Tolkien expert Douglas A. Anderson, editor of The Annotated Hobbit, has gathered the fiction of the many gifted authors who sparked Tolkien's imagination. Included are Andrew Lang's romantic swashbuckler, The Story of Sigurd, which features magic rings & a ferocious dragon; an excerpt from E. A. Wyke-Smith's The Marvelous Land of Snergs, about creatures who were precursors to hobbits; & a never-before-published gem by David Lindsay, author of A Voyage to Arcturus, a novel that Tolkien praised highly both as a thriller & as a work of philosophy, religion & morality.
In stories packed with magical journeys, conflicted heroes & terrible beasts, this volume is one that no fan of fantasy should be without. These tales may inspire a new generation of creative writers.15021412003Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasytotal:79|5:17|4:25|3:28|2:8|1:1|792861691053falsefalseFri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009Mon Oct 20 08:23:32 -0700 2008Fri Nov 06 10:05:57 -0800 20091
In all, Anderson has collected 21 stories here, mostly by British authors --though American fantasy is represented, and Ludwig Tieck was of course German. The arrangement of the stories here is chronological, and the editor contributes a brief introduction to the book and short hi...more...]]>
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the author of The Lord of the Rings." All the stories are by
fantasy writers who were born at least 5 years before Tolkien and published fantasy before 1937. Some of these
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