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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 9714750" data-attributes="member: 5142">When I started reading fantasy, I did read The Hobbit but also Redwall. When my father found out that I was reading fantasy, he took me to his parents' house, where he still had many books from his childhood and college reading. So before I got around to reading Lord of the Rings, my father had introduced me to Michael Moorcock's multiverse (Elric of Melniboné, Corum, Dorian Hawkmoon, etc.), A Wizard of Earthsea, Fritz Lieber, John Carter of Mars, etc. I only got around to reading LotR around the time that the films came out, but by then, my sense of fantasy was already outside of Tolkien. In a world where reading is less prevalent for visual and interactive media, it's also worth considering that video games may also be taking the place of "books" in terms of influential fantasy works.</blockquote>