Dude invented modern fantasy
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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I expected the Bible.
Frank Herbert>>>
Aren’t they different genres though? It’s like comparing Ronaldo to Usain Bolt and Michael Jordan. Idk meme doesn’t make sense.
It would make more sense to bring light to the fact that Shakespeare popularized most of the modern tropes that we have today.
I once heard Tolkien called equivalent to Mt Fuji (in Japanese landscapes) in the fantasy genre.
Everything either derives from/references it or makes a deliberate choice not to to make some point or other, but it always relates back to it…
Honestly HG wells and HP lovecraft for me, I love their works, they literally invented scifi for me
She literally copied Star Wars…
You’re talking about completely different things though. Lovecraft’s proto-scifi/weird fiction nor Poe’s gothic tinged horror sure aren’t classical fantasy literature. Not to mention they came before Tolkien, especially Poe. Lovecraft’s first published story “The Alchemist” was in 1916. I say this as a fan of all three writers, and having all three of theirs books on my shelf.
I don’t understand this meme.