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Over at Tolkien authority Douglas Anderson's blog
http://tolkienandfantasy.blogspot.com/
there's an investigation going on relating to books published before 1970 that included blurbs relating to Tolkien on their covers. (This doesn't count books by or about Tolkien.)
After 1969, Tolkienian references became almost institutionalized, you probably could say. But it is interesting to see what was marketed as "as good as Tolkien!" before then. The short summary of that is: swords-and-sorcery fantasy was marketed as Tolkienian (although examples of high fantasy -- E. R. Eddison -- also were). Later, swords-and-sorcery was established as its own publishing genre and I don't suppose you would ever see someone marketing a Robert E. Howard-type of book as "Tolkienian." At least not in English. What they do in, say, Russia I don't know.
Anyway, people have come up with about a dozen paperbacks published before 1970 that were compared to Tolkien. Can anyone identify others?
Does anyone have the Ace edition with the blue Gaughan cover of John Myers Myers' Silverlock? It seems that the back cover copy might allude to Tolkien but no one has verified that yet.
http://tolkienandfantasy.blogspot.com/
there's an investigation going on relating to books published before 1970 that included blurbs relating to Tolkien on their covers. (This doesn't count books by or about Tolkien.)
After 1969, Tolkienian references became almost institutionalized, you probably could say. But it is interesting to see what was marketed as "as good as Tolkien!" before then. The short summary of that is: swords-and-sorcery fantasy was marketed as Tolkienian (although examples of high fantasy -- E. R. Eddison -- also were). Later, swords-and-sorcery was established as its own publishing genre and I don't suppose you would ever see someone marketing a Robert E. Howard-type of book as "Tolkienian." At least not in English. What they do in, say, Russia I don't know.
Anyway, people have come up with about a dozen paperbacks published before 1970 that were compared to Tolkien. Can anyone identify others?
Does anyone have the Ace edition with the blue Gaughan cover of John Myers Myers' Silverlock? It seems that the back cover copy might allude to Tolkien but no one has verified that yet.