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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dioltach" data-source="post: 8522227" data-attributes="member: 21843">Terry Brooks mentions in his book about writing that one reason why The Sword of Shannara finally got picked up for publication (in 1977) as because Lester Del Rey was convinced that there was a large enough market for fantasy to become its own genre (until then it was mostly something that sci-fi writers did on the side). He argued that there were vast numbers of Lord of the Rings lovers who were just waiting for another book to come along and scratch their itch.I reckon that part of D&D's initial success was in part because it also scratched that itch.</blockquote>