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Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy
| Author: | Douglas A. Anderson |
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Del Rey / Ballantine, 2003 |
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Synopsis
Terry Brooks. David Eddings. George R. R. Martin. Robin Hobb. The top names in modern fantasy all acknowledge J. R. R. Tolkien as their role model, the author whose work inspired them to create their own epics. But what writers influenced Tolkien himself? Here, internationally recognized Tolkien expert Douglas A. Anderson has gathered the fiction of authors who sparked Tolkien's imagination in a collection destined to become a classic in its own right.
Andrew Lang's romantic swashbuckler, "The Story of Sigurd," features magic rings, an enchanted sword, and a brave hero loved by two beautiful women-- and cursed by a ferocious dragon. Tolkien read E. A. Wyke-Smith's "The Marvelous Land of Snergs" to his children, delighting in these charming tales of a pixieish people "only slightly taller than the average table." Also appearing in this collection is a never-before-published gem by David Lindsay, author of Voyage to Arcturus, a novel which Tolkien praised highly both as a thriller and as a work of philosophy, religion, and morals.
In stories packed with magical journeys, conflicted heroes, and terrible beasts, this extraordinary volume is one that no fan of fantasy or Tolkien should be without. These tales just might inspire a new generation of creative writers.
Contents:
- 1 - Introduction (Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy) - essay by Douglas A. Anderson
- 4 - The Elves - (1827) - novelette by Ludwig Tieck (trans. of Die Elfen 1812)
- 21 - The Golden Key - (1867) - novelette by George MacDonald
- 46 - Puss-Cat Mew - (1869) - novelette by Lord Brabourne [as by E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen]
- 87 - The Griffin and the Minor Canon - (1885) - shortstory by Frank R. Stockton
- 101 - The Demon Pope - (1888) - shortstory by Richard Garnett
- 111 - The Story of Sigurd - (1890) - shortstory by Andrew Lang
- 120 - The Folk of the Mountain Door - (1914) - shortstory by William Morris
- 133 - Black Heart and White Heart: A Zulu Idyll - (1886) - novella by H. Rider Haggard (variant of Black Heart and White Heart 1896)
- 182 - The Dragon Tamers - [Seven Dragons] - (1899) - shortstory by E. Nesbit
- 195 - The Far Islands - (1899) - novelette by John Buchan
- 213 - The Drawn Arrow - (1923) - shortstory by Clemence Housman
- 224 - The Enchanted Buffalo - (1905) - shortstory by L. Frank Baum
- 232 - Chu-Bu and Sheemish - (1911) - shortstory by Lord Dunsany
- 237 - The Baumoff Explosive - (1919) - shortstory by William Hope Hodgson
- 253 - The Regent of the North - (1915) - shortstory by Kenneth Morris
- 264 - The Coming of the Terror - (1917) - shortstory by Arthur Machen
- 302 - The Elf-Trap - (1919) - shortstory by Francis Stevens
- 325 - The Thin Queen Of Elfhame - [Biography of the Life of Manuel] - (1922) - shortstory by James Branch Cabell
- 333 - The Woman of the Wood - (1926) - novelette by A. Merritt
- 359 - Golithos the Ogre (excerpt) - (1927) - shortfiction by E. A. Wyke-Smith
- 371 - The Story of Alwina - [Islandia] - (2003) - novelette by Austin Tappan Wright (variant of An Islandian Tale: The Story of Alwina 1981)
- 391 - A Christmas Play - (2003) - shortfiction by David Lindsay
- 427 - Author Notes and Recommended Reading - essay by uncredited
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