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* "Beginning with [[Terry Brooks]]'s mid-seventies ''The Sword of Shannara'' -- which is almost a straight retelling, with the objects altered -- fantasy fiction, of the sword-and-sorcery kind, has been an annex of Tolkien's imagination. A vaguely medieval world populated by dwarfs, elves, trolls; an evil lord out to enslave the good creatures; and, almost always, a weird magic thing that will let him do it, if the hero doesn't find or destroy it first -- that is the Tolkien formula. Each element certainly has an earlier template and a source, but they enter the bookstore, and the best-seller list, through Tolkien's peculiar treatment of them."<ref>Adam Gopnik, "The Dragon's Egg", ''The New Yorker'', Dec. 5, 2011, pp. 86-89.</ref> | * "Beginning with [[Terry Brooks]]'s mid-seventies ''The Sword of Shannara'' -- which is almost a straight retelling, with the objects altered -- fantasy fiction, of the sword-and-sorcery kind, has been an annex of Tolkien's imagination. A vaguely medieval world populated by dwarfs, elves, trolls; an evil lord out to enslave the good creatures; and, almost always, a weird magic thing that will let him do it, if the hero doesn't find or destroy it first -- that is the Tolkien formula. Each element certainly has an earlier template and a source, but they enter the bookstore, and the best-seller list, through Tolkien's peculiar treatment of them."<ref>Adam Gopnik, "The Dragon's Egg", ''The New Yorker'', Dec. 5, 2011, pp. 86-89.</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 11:33, 28 November 2011
- "Beginning with Terry Brooks's mid-seventies The Sword of Shannara -- which is almost a straight retelling, with the objects altered -- fantasy fiction, of the sword-and-sorcery kind, has been an annex of Tolkien's imagination. A vaguely medieval world populated by dwarfs, elves, trolls; an evil lord out to enslave the good creatures; and, almost always, a weird magic thing that will let him do it, if the hero doesn't find or destroy it first -- that is the Tolkien formula. Each element certainly has an earlier template and a source, but they enter the bookstore, and the best-seller list, through Tolkien's peculiar treatment of them."[1]
- Notable works
- Jacqueline Carey subverted the Tolkienesque fantasy with her "Sundering" duology, Banewreaker and Godslayer.
notes
- ↑ Adam Gopnik, "The Dragon's Egg", The New Yorker, Dec. 5, 2011, pp. 86-89.