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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 9714779" data-attributes="member: 59082">Back to the OP, and to address it more directly, as someone more in the 1970s, my interest emerged around the same time. I was interested in fantasy stories and mythology before discovering D&D, which was like a dream come true (you mean I get to play out the stories?!), but I don't know if I read LotR or played D&D first. Probably the former, but not sure.But today, I see Tolkien as my "literary grandfather," and Ursula K Le Guin as my "literary grandmother" - in terms of my own fantasy writing. I have numerous other influences, but those two hold a special reverence to me - not just because of what they wrote, but also what they wrote about what they wrote (e.g. Tolkien's Letters and "On Fairy-stories," Le Guin's essays, but especially those in Language of the Night and various interviews and lectures). But there are so many other influences across different media.</blockquote>