Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy UPDATE:Default Title Believed to be possessed

Believed to be possessed

In a field notorious for its mysoginism

from Paris to New York and back again

Armed with little more than a slide rule and a few equations

Washington Irving is said to have created the genre of the short story in America

Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy UPDATE:Default Title Believed to be possessedAuthor Contributor(s): Anderson, Douglas A.; Tieck, Ludwig; MacDonald, George; Nesbit, E.; Garnett, Richard Publisher: Del Rey Date: 8 26 2003 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW 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