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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhu's Librarian" data-source="post: 1280406" data-attributes="member: 11064">Pre-Tolkien you need to include George Macdonald (late 1800s) & Lord Dunsany (early 1900s). CS Lewis frequently cited Macdonald as "my mentor", and Dunsany was a major influence on Lovecraft, and his influence is seen in Tolkien as well. William Hope Hodgson published The House on the Boarderland in 1908. A few others I don't have dates for are Arthur Machen, Lin Carter, and Algernon Blackwood.Post-Tolkien, Poul Anderson published Three Hearts and Three Lions in 1953. I'm not sure of the date, but I believe Jack Vance published the first of the Dying Earth series in the 50s as well (but it may have been the 60s). I'm not sure when L. Sprague de Camp, Andre Norton, and Ray Bradbury started publishing, but they weren't long after LOTR. I'll try to think of a few more and post them. I'm in New York for the holidays so I can't go to the shelves and look to see what else is contemporary with LOTR. </blockquote>