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You know, until you mentioned it in the preceding post, I had never considered the LOTR to be fantasy. I never really categorized it, although when I read it the first time around (it was wildly popular in my first year of university, and even spawned a movie back in '78 or 79) I recommended to my father to read it. His reply (in classic Teutonic fashion) was that he already read the Ring of the Nibelung, or the Nibelungenlied, so why would he read something derivative. I of course never brought it up with him again.
So, a few years later when I read through The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, I kind of knew where he was coming from. I think that as the tales of the Unbeliever are to LOTR, so is LOTR to the Nibelungenlied. To me, Thomas Covenant is prime Fantasy genre while LOTR was something that stood out on its own. Maybe it created the genre.
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