Early Sixties Fanzine Article Links Tolkien and Lovecraft

[Extollager]

This piece

I Palantir, Issue 3, August 1964 - Tolkien Fanzines - Marquette University e-Archives (oclc.org)

by Dainis Bisenieks is fun.

(I think the Watcher may have wandered over from H. G. Wells's "The Sea-Raiders," which it's more likely Tolkien read than something by HPL; but as a playful linking of two fictional inventions the essay is entertaining.)

 

[BAYLOR]

Hm, A tentacled monster , struck me as being vaguely Lovcraftain.