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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9418758" data-attributes="member: 7026594">I figured. One big post-Tolkien shift in fantasy was the increased prevalence of the idea of making a fantasy world ostensibly completely unrelated and unconnected to our world. Prior to Tolkien a super-common, if not the predominant, device was having a character from our world travel in time or through dimensions into a fantasy world, or the literary device of setting the fantasy in our own world's prehistory or history.  Despite (ironically) Tolkien having used the latter device, his worldbuilding was inspirational to a lot of later writers in terms of trying to make deep, rich worlds without any direct connection to our own. I'm not sure if "secondary world" is the most common term for that concept, but it's definitely one I've seen.</blockquote>