"in his lifetime, and was sometimes harshly disapproving. In 1946, he rejected suggestions for illustrations by Horus Engels for the German edition of ""The Hobbit"" as ""too Disnified ... Bilbo with a dribbling nose, and Gandalf as a figure of vulgar fun rather than the Odinic wanderer that I think of"". Tolkien was sceptical of the emerging Tolkien fandom in the United States, and in 1954 he returned proposals for the dust jackets of the American edition of ""The Lord of the Rings"": He had dismissed dramatic representations of fantasy in his essay ""On Fairy-Stories"", first presented in 1939: Tolkien"
"15th century compilation of Welsh history and poetry that contains the manuscript of the Mabinogion. Bound (and rebound) in red leather, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the manuscript was well known to Tolkien. The title ""There and Back Again"" represents an archetypal Hobbit outlook on adventures. Frodo looks upon the going ""there and back again"" as an ideal throughout ""The Lord of the Rings"" similar to the Greek concept of ""nostos"". Tolkien's ""Red Book"", pastiche of scholarship though it is, functions as such a medieval 'spurious source', but the 'authority' it imparts is by an appeal not to the tried-and-true"
"in Russian copyright law). Dennis L. McKiernan's Silver Call duology was intended to be a direct sequel to ""The Lord of the Rings"" but had to be altered. The ""Iron Tower"" trilogy, highly influenced by Tolkien's books, was then written as backstory. Throughout the next two decades, the term ""fantasy"" became synonymous with the general aspects of Tolkien's work: multiple races including dwarves and elves, a quest to destroy a magical artifact, and an evil that seeks to control the world. The plot of Novelist Pat Murphy's ""There and Back Again"" intentionally mirrors that of ""The Hobbit"", but is transposed"
"rocks beneath, thus leading to Bolg's final battle with Legolas, who kills Bolg. Following the resolution of the battle, Thranduil finds Tauriel weeping over Kili's body, finally acknowledging that her feelings for the young dwarf were genuine. In 1937 J. R. R. Tolkien published the fantasy novel ""The Hobbit"", whose plot centres on a group consisting of the titular Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf the wizard and thirteen dwarves, who go in search of a treasure guarded by the dragon, Smaug. During the course of their travels, they enter the black forest of Mirkwood, where they find themselves in the dungeons of"
"house. The Quest of Erebor ""The Quest of Erebor"" is a work of fantasy fiction by J. R. R. Tolkien, posthumously published by his son Christopher Tolkien in ""Unfinished Tales"" (1980). This work explains how and why Gandalf arranged for the retaking of the Lonely Mountain (""Erebor"" in Sindarin), an adventure recounted from the perspective of Bilbo Baggins many years before in Tolkien's ""The Hobbit"". The term ""Quest of Erebor"" can also refer to the quest told in ""The Hobbit"". For more on the quest itself, see the synopsis in the main article on ""The Hobbit"". ""The Quest of Erebor"""
"that Tolkien wrote to expand the story of Middle-Earth (published in the back of ""The Return of the King""). While the third film, which as its title indicates, depicts the Battle of the Five Armies, largely made use of footage originally shot for the first and second films, it required additional filming as well. The second film was retitled ""The Desolation of Smaug"" and the third film was titled ""There and Back Again"" in August 2012. On 24 April 2014, the third film was renamed ""The Battle of the Five Armies"". On the title change, Jackson said, """"There and Back"
"The Quest of Erebor ""The Quest of Erebor"" is a work of fantasy fiction by J. R. R. Tolkien, posthumously published by his son Christopher Tolkien in ""Unfinished Tales"" (1980). This work explains how and why Gandalf arranged for the retaking of the Lonely Mountain (""Erebor"" in Sindarin), an adventure recounted from the perspective of Bilbo Baggins many years before in Tolkien's ""The Hobbit"". The term ""Quest of Erebor"" can also refer to the quest told in ""The Hobbit"". For more on the quest itself, see the synopsis in the main article on ""The Hobbit"". ""The Quest of Erebor"" was"
"is in tone a children's story, but contains many allusions and references in the manner of ""Farmer Giles of Ham"". It was submitted for publication in 1937 after the success of ""The Hobbit"", but was not published for over sixty years, finally being released in 1998. ""Roverandom"" was included in the collection ""Tales from the Perilous Realm"" from its 2009 reprinting onwards. Major Minor Roverandom Roverandom is a novella by J. R. R. Tolkien, originally told in 1925, about the adventures of a young dog, Rover. In the story, an irritable wizard turns Rover into a toy, and Rover goes"
"grow again. In T. H. White's ""The Once and Future King"", an Arthurian fantasy novel published in 1958, Merlyn the magician is depicted as living backwards through time. In the comic ""2000AD"", issue 308, 19 March 1983, there is a story called ""The Reversible Man"" which starts with the man lying on the ground having died and he travels backwards through his life getting younger. He sees his children get ""unborn"" and he ""unmeets"" his wife and he regresses to babyhood and is eventually unborn himself. Another story based on a similar plot is ""The Confessions of Max Tivoli"", a"
"the story opens. The boy Yann has been trained to assist a stage magician but has or develops genuine magic powers; a starred review (unusually good) by the American service ""Kirkus Reviews"" labels even ""The Red Necklace"" fantasy. ""The Double Shadow"" is historical fantasy that opens in 1937 Britain. ""Tinder"" (2013) is a historical novel set during the Thirty Years War. ""Maggot Moon"" (2012) won the Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, which annually recognises the best new book for children or young adults published in the UK. The alternate history is set in 1950s England during the space race,"
"in paperback form when published as one of the precursor volumes to the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in 1968. From the early 1930s to late 1940s, an informal literary discussion group associated with the English faculty at the University of Oxford, were the ""Inklings"". Its leading members were the major fantasy novelists; C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Lewis is known for ""The Screwtape Letters"" (1942), ""The Chronicles of Narnia"" (1950–1956) and ""The Space Trilogy"" (1938–1945), while Tolkien is best known as the author of ""The Hobbit"" (1937), ""The Lord of the Rings"" (1954–1955), and ""The Silmarillion"" (1977)."
"had been published in magazines and small collections, including ""Goblin Feet"" and ""The Cat and the Fiddle: A Nursery Rhyme Undone and its Scandalous Secret Unlocked"", a reworking of the nursery rhyme ""Hey Diddle Diddle"". His creative endeavours at this time also included letters from Father Christmas to his children—illustrated manuscripts that featured warring gnomes and goblins, and a helpful polar bear—alongside the creation of elven languages and an attendant mythology, including the Book of Lost Tales, which he had been creating since 1917. These works all saw posthumous publication. In a 1955 letter to W. H. Auden, Tolkien recollects"
"larger background of legend and history behind the stories. Excerpts from notes for lectures that J. R. R. Tolkien gave on related topics are also included. Brian Cox collaborated with HarperCollins to produce a dramatic reading of ""The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún"", released in August 2009. The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a book containing two narrative poems and related texts composed by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and HarperCollins on 5 May 2009. The two poems that make up most of the book were probably"
"in the Stone"" was awarded the Retro-Hugo Award for Best Novel for 1939. The Sword in the Stone (novel) The Sword in the Stone is a novel by British writer T. H. White, published in 1938, initially as a stand-alone work but now the first part of a tetralogy, ""The Once and Future King"". A fantasy of the boyhood of King Arthur, it is a ""sui generis"" work which combines elements of legend, history, fantasy and comedy. Walt Disney Productions adapted the story to an animated film, and the BBC adapted it to radio. The premise is that Arthur's youth,"
"is not explicated. The Return of Conan The Return of Conan is a 1957 fantasy novel written by Björn Nyberg and L. Sprague de Camp, featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in hardcover by Gnome Press and in paperback by Lancer Books as part of the collection ""Conan the Avenger"" in 1968; in this form it has been reprinted a number of times since by various publishers. It has also been translated into Japanese, German and Spanish. In the kingdom of Aquilonia, a year of peace for King Conan and his"
"Time and Again (Simak novel) Time and Again (sometimes written as Time & Again) is a 1951 novel by science fiction author Clifford D. Simak. An alternate paperback title was First He Died, and it was also serialized (with a different ending) as Time Quarry. The plot involved a long-lost spaceman returning to Earth from a distant planet where the ""souls"" of humans may live. His fuddled observations spark a religious schism and war, and ""future folk insist [he] should be killed on sight as he will otherwise write a book that, because it tells a truth inconvenient to religious"
"Storm Over Warlock Storm Over Warlock is a science fiction novel written by Andre Norton and published in 1960 by the World Publishing Company. The story combines science fiction with fantasy, technology with witchcraft, in a way typical of Norton’s works. The sequel is ""Ordeal in Otherwhere"". Shann Lantee is lucky to be alive. He had sneaked out of the small Terran base on the planet Warlock in the Circe system to find two artificially evolved wolverines, Taggi and his mate Togi, and bring them back to the base before anyone notices that they are missing. While he is gone"
"Hoard"" from 1923 was best accessible in this book. ""The Annotated Hobbit"" won the 1990 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in ""Inkling studies"" by the Mythopoeic Society. The Annotated Hobbit The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is an edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel ""The Hobbit"" with a commentary by Douglas A. Anderson. It was first published in 1988 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first American publication of ""The Hobbit"", and by Unwin Hyman of London. According to the editor, ""The Annotated Hobbit"" is a referenced novel where in"
"2003 Sundance Film Festival and can be found on the DVD for , along with a ""making of"" video. In 2004, Astin released ""There and Back Again"" (), a memoir (co-written with Joe Layden) of his film career with emphasis on his experiences during production of ""The Lord of the Rings"" trilogy. The title is derived from the title of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel ""The Hobbit"", as well as the fictional book written by Bilbo Baggins in ""The Lord of the Rings"". Since ""Lord of the Rings"", Astin has continued to work in film and television. His film roles"
"Fiction and Fantasy Magazine"" for May and July 1977. ""The Frost Monstreme"" and ""Rime Isle"" have also been published separately as the novel ""Rime Isle"" (1977). While the stories were ostensibly assembled in chronological order by the author, internal evidence indicates that the third, ""Trapped in the Shadowland,"" which is a direct sequel to the preceding volume, ""The Swords of Lankhmar"", should actually have been placed first. The Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories concern the lives of two larcenous but likable rogues as they adventure across the fantasy world of Nehwon. In ""Swords and Ice Magic"" the duo face a"
"be living in the land of Abhalljin on the planet Venus. The return of King Arthur has been especially prominent in the comics medium with examples from at least the 1940s. One of the better known uses of this motif is by Mike Barr and Brian Bolland, who have Arthur and his knights returning in the year 3000 to save the Earth from an alien invasion in the comic book series ""Camelot 3000"" (1982–85). Other examples include Stephen R. Lawhead's novel ""Avalon: The Return of King Arthur"" (1999), featuring a reincarnated Arthur who rises to restore the British monarchy as"
"The Return of Tarzan The Return of Tarzan is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the second in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine ""New Story Magazine"" in the issues for June through December 1913; the first book edition was published in 1915 by A. C. McClurg. The novel picks up soon after where ""Tarzan of the Apes"" left off. The ape man, feeling rootless in the wake of his noble sacrifice of his prospects of wedding Jane Porter, leaves America for Europe to visit his friend"
"and J. R. R. Tolkien due to the way it combines original fantasy plots with folk mythology. The collection was translated into English by F.S. Copeland and first published in New York in 1922 by the Frederick A. Stokes Co. and in 1924 in London by the George Allen & Unwin publishing house, the same company which originally published J.R.R. Tolkien's ""The Hobbit"" in 1937, and ""The Lord of the Rings"" trilogy in 1954–55. The English-language editions also featured illustrations by the Croatian illustrator Vladimir Kirin. The original Croatian edition published in 1916 consisted of six stories. Two additional stories"
"Leaf by Niggle ""Leaf by Niggle"" is a short story written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1938–39 and first published in the ""Dublin Review"" in January 1945. It can be found, most notably, in Tolkien's book titled ""Tree and Leaf"", and in other places (including the collections ""The Tolkien Reader"", ""Poems & Stories"", ""A Tolkien Miscellany"", and ""Tales from the Perilous Realm""). This is notable because the book, consisting of a seminal essay called ""On Fairy-Stories"" and ""Leaf by Niggle"", offers the underlying philosophy (Creation and Sub-Creation, see below) of much of Tolkien's fantastical writings. ""Leaf by Niggle"" is"
"Tales of Dunk and Egg Tales of Dunk and Egg is a series of fantasy novellas by George R. R. Martin, set in the world of his ""A Song of Ice and Fire"" novels. They follow the adventures of ""Dunk"" (the future Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, Ser Duncan the Tall) and ""Egg"" (the future king Aegon V Targaryen), some 90 years before the events of the novels. Three novellas have been published–""The Hedge Knight"" (1998), ""The Sworn Sword"" (2003), and ""The Mystery Knight"" (2010)–and Martin has stated his intention to continue the series. A collection of the existing three"
"Unfortunately, he did not have the scholarly training to do this with sufficient rigor and the book has many factual errors throughout, but his enthusiasm is infectious."" Tolkien: A Look Behind ""The Lord of the Rings"" Tolkien: A Look Behind ""The Lord of the Rings"" is a study of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien written by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books in March 1969 and reprinted in April 1969, April 1970, July 1971, July 1972, February 1973, July 1973, June 1975 and November 1977, after which it went out of print for"
"The Indigo King The Indigo King, released on October 21, 2008, is the third book of ""The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica"", a series of books begun by ""Here, There Be Dragons"", by James A. Owen. It follows ""The Search for the Red Dragon"" and precedes ""The Shadow Dragons"", which was released in October 2009. Five years after their prior adventure, John (J.R.R. Tolkien) and Jack (C.S. Lewis) are joined by Hugo Dyson and Owen Barfield. When John disappears into the past, the badger Fred displaces them into an alternate reality, where they are accompanied by Chaz (Charles Williams), and"
"virginity, primarily because her various antagonists seem too depraved to consider ordinary intercourse, while her male companions are either too honorable, too inhibited, or too distracted by Evalla. The novel ends with the quest unfinished and the mysteries of Tara's heritage and destiny unresolved, with the travelers flying onward to new adventures in their magical air-gondola. Tara of the Twilight Tara of the Twilight is a fantasy novel by American writer Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Zebra Books in October 1979. According to Carter's introductory note, ""Tara of the Twilight"" represents his attempt to combine the"
"freeing approximately 30 slaves and placing them under the protection of a nearby consulate. Dragon and Slave Dragon and Slave is the third volume of Timothy Zahn's ""Dragonback"" series, following ""Dragon and Thief"" and ""Dragon and Soldier"". It is a thriller, set largely on the fictional planet Brum-a-dum, and follows its protagonists' experience of slavery. The novel was first published in 2005, by Tom Doherty and Associates, New York. Its sequels are ""Dragon and Herdsman"", ""Dragon and Judge"" and ""Dragon and Liberator"". Having determined that the various 'Brummgas' (a troll-like species reputed for unintelligence) encountered in the prior two volumes,"
"Back to the Stone Age Back to the Stone Age is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fifth in his series set in the lost world of Pellucidar. It first appeared as a six-part serial in ""Argosy Weekly"" from January 9 to February 13, 1937 under the title ""Seven Worlds to Conquer"". It was first published in book form in hardcover by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. in September, 1937 under the present title, and has been reissued a number of times since by various publishers. The story reveals the fate of Wilhelm von Horst, the lost member"
"magical lands anticipates the similar device used by C.S. Lewis in ""The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"", and, earlier, in the 1912 short story by Edith Nesbit, ""The Aunt and Amabel"" — in which a girl enters a magic world through a wardrobe. (Critics accept that this was Lewis's inspiration.) The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas (""Der 35. Mai oder Konrad reitet in die Südsee"" in German, its original language) is a novel by Erich Kästner, first published in 1931. Unlike most of"
"The Shadow Dragons The Shadow Dragons, released on October 27, 2009, is the fourth novel of ""The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica"", a book series begun by ""Here, There Be Dragons"". It was preceded by ""The Indigo King"" and followed by ""The Dragon's Apprentice"". In 1942, protagonists John (J.R.R. Tolkien), Jack (C.S. Lewis), and Charles (Charles Williams) return to the Archipelago of Dreams as the last stones of the Keep of Time fall, endangering the Cartographer (Merlin)'s study and the inaccessible ""future"" door. As the second World War rages, the Imperial Cartological Society - led by writer/explorer Sir Richard Burton"
"Farthing (novel) Farthing is an alternate history novel written by Jo Walton and published by Tor Books. It was first published on August 8, 2006. A sequel, ""Ha'penny"", was released in October 2007 by Tor Books. A third novel in the series, ""Half a Crown"", was released in September 2008, also from Tor, and a short story, ""Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction"", was published on Tor.com in February 2009. The novel is set in the 1949 of an alternate history. Though the divergence point from actual history seems to be Rudolf Hess's flight to Scotland in May 1941,"