Talk:Tolkien's impact on fantasy

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Text in this article has been selected from recently-edited materials that were at History of fantasy, now deleted from there per consensus; see the history there for attribution. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:05, 19 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello Chiswick Chap, I don’t know how to give a feedback on Wiki, so I decided to do it here: There have been many other fantasy novels before. Take china for an example; they had fantasy novels since hundreds of years ago. A famous example is the book “Journey to the West“, which was written hundreds of years ago. I encourage you to change that in your article!
 * Cheers
 * Someone, who got really frustrated while choosing a name for wiki… Why is almost every possible name taken?! (talk) 20:43, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Sry, no comma after someone ;) Why is almost every possible name taken?! (talk) 20:45, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Sure. In the West also, there were many works that could be considered "fantastic", well-known texts including Beowulf alongside many lesser ones. The point is that this article is explicitly NOT a history of fantasy from the beginning of culture, but about the impact that T. had on fantasy (from his time onwards). Hope this helps. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:49, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

"Mythopoeia" section
Under fantasy mythological pantheons which could have given Tolkien ideas, it should probably mention The Gods of Pegana by Lord Dunsany, which was published just as Tolkien became a teenager... AnonMoos (talk) 23:10, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * This article is not meant to overlap with Influences on J. R. R. Tolkien or its subsidiaries like Tolkien's modern sources - they're about input, this is about output. On Dunsany, Tolkien mentioned disliking The Worm Ouroboros; I don't recall anyone reliably discussing the effect of Pegana on Tolkien, but if they did, Tolkien's modern sources would be the place. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:15, 9 February 2024 (UTC)


 * OK, but ER Eddison wrote the Worm Ouroboros, not Lord Dunsany. Lord Dunsany was the rising young UK fantasy writer when Tolkien was a teen (at a time when there wasn't room for very many commercially successful-writers specializing in fantasy), and definitely mythologically inclined, especially in his earlier works... AnonMoos (talk) 17:24, 9 February 2024 (UTC)