Alexandru Constantin, over at Barbarian Book Club, has issued the Pre-Tolkien Fantasy Challenge.
Here’s how it works:
- Identify 3 Fantasy stories written before Lord of the Rings was published. 3 stories written before 1954.
- Review all three on your blog, focusing on pre-Tolkien differences of similarities, and making sure you let us know where we can find them for ourselves.
- Share the challenge.
I don’t know about you, but I’m in.
I’ve written plenty of posts on C. L. Moore, Robert E. Howard, and Henry Kuttner, more than I can list here. Check the sidebar for their names. I didn’t focus on how the works of those authors compared with Tolkien, though. I’ll do that in future posts.
I’m in.
Good to have you with us.
Thank you for the signal boost, I’m gonna try to keep as many of the posts together and reblog.
I made a banner for it btw if you want to grab it for the posts.
Thanks. I’ve added the banner to the post and will include it in future Pre-Tolkien posts.
I want to be in. I’m going to make a plan.
In my mind I see Blackadder wringing his hands and evilly cackling, “I have a cunning plan.”
Now I do as well. lol