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Elvenhome
May 28 2020, 1:21am
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while I don't doubt Tolkien influenced her writing to some extent, I always thought of her as being her own category.
In fact, purely for fun and my personal needs, I divide fantasy into three vague and overlapping categories. Tolkien (where the journeys are more external), Ursula le Guin (where the journeys are more internal, think of the Jungian aspects of the Earthsea books) and anti-Tolkien (Sapkowski, Martin etc).
I wonder where various examples of sword & sorcery fit into your system (Robert E Howard, Fritz Lieber's Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, etc.)? Michael Moorcock's innovation was a fascinating blending of low-fantasy and high-fantasy elements. His Elric might fit into both your "anti-Tolkien" and "le Guin" catagories.
#FidelityToTolkien
(This post was edited by Otaku-sempai on May 28 2020, 1:22am)
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