The Roots of Modern Fantasy

By: Douglas A. Anderson

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Paperback | 29 November 2005

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"A superb collection, a splendid and much-needed book. Anderson has cleared away the dross and 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 himself? In a collection destined to become a classic in its own right, 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 and a ferocious dragon; an excerpt from E. A. Wyke-Smith's The Marvelous Land of Snergs, about creatures who were precursors to Tolkien's hobbits; and a never-before-published gem by David Lindsay, author of A Voyage to Arcturus, " "a novel that Tolkien praised highly both as a thriller and as a work of philosophy, religion, and morality.
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.

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Introduction	p. 1
The Elves	p. 4
The Golden Key	p. 21
Puss-cat Mew	p. 46
The Griffin and the Minor Canon	p. 87
The Demon Pope	p. 101
The Story of Sigurd	p. 111
The Folk of the Mountain Door	p. 120
Black Heart and White Heart: A Zulu Idyll	p. 133
The Dragon Tamers	p. 182
The Far Islands	p. 195
The Drawn Arrow	p. 213
The Enchanted Buffalo	p. 224
Chu-bu and Sheemish	p. 232
The Baumoff Explosive	p. 237
The Regent of the North	p. 253
The Coming of the Terror	p. 264
The Elf Trap	p. 302
The Thin Queen of Elfhame	p. 325
The Woman of the Wood	p. 333
Golithos the Ogre	p. 359
The Story of Alwina	p. 371
A Christmas Play	p. 391
Author Notes and Recommended Reading	p. 427
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