Much of his fiction, which he has been publishing since the 1950s, revolves around a figure known as the Eternal Champion, a hero who exists across all dimensions and maintains the cosmic balance. He served as editor of the science-fiction magazine New Worlds from 1964-1971, and then again from 1976-1996. Born in London in 1939, Moorcock started writing while he was still in school. And then there are those who have deliberately rebelled against it. A small army of authors have tried, with varying degrees of success, to mimic Tolkien’s strategy. He invented entire languages and histories, creating worlds that felt more authentic than any that had come before.
Characters had silly-sounding names that weren’t tied to a culture or history they just needed to sound “fantasy-like.” A professor of literature and languages at Oxford, Tolkien wanted his stories to seem real. No other work of fantasy has achieved the cultural impact of J. I don’t believe it’s unreasonable to say that there are two major periods of 20th century fantasy: the period before The Lord of the Rings, and the period after.
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