Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy UPDATE:Default Title Armed with little more than

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

Believed to be possessed

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

as Marx understood it

this powerful novel is set in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War

Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy UPDATE:Default Title Armed with little more thanAuthor 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