The Rise of Tolkienian Fantasy

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Jared Lobdell takes the view that the realm of fantasy is the natural, if not inevitable direction fiction writing is headed. By Surveying and criticizing the authors that influenced J.R.R. Tolkien's great works and presenting contemporary authors like Stephen King, and Ursula Le Guin whose works have been impacted by Tolkien, Professor Lobdell identifies an interesting pattern in the evolution of fiction.

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Jared C. Lobdell Contributor residences (city, state or country if outside the US or Canada): Writer and editor Jared Lobdell lives in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, where he teaches at Millersville University of Pennsylvania and is Weekend College Coordinator with Harrisburg Area Community College. He edited A Tolkien Compass (1975; new edition 2003) and The Detective Fiction Reviews of Charles Williams (2003). He is the author of The World of the Rings (2004), a revised edition of his England and Always: Tolkien's World of the Rings (1981).