Timeline for Did Roger Zelazny ever read The Lord of the Rings?
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| Jun 28, 2023 at 5:01 | comment | added | Yakk | "Had a fantasy author who wrote fantasy books at the start of the genre read the book that had just invented the entire fantasy genre as a going concern?" - I mean, is this skeptics? | |
| Jun 28, 2023 at 4:22 | comment | added | dmedine | People were tagging 'Frodo Lives' on NYC subway stations in the 1960s. | |
| Jun 26, 2023 at 19:03 | vote | accept | Влад Артюх | ||
| Jun 26, 2023 at 18:58 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 26, 2023 at 15:43 | answer | added | Hypnosifl | timeline score: 26 | |
| Jun 26, 2023 at 12:15 | comment | added | user888379 | I am confident that Zelazny was aware of Tolkien's work; the '60s was when The Lord of the Rings exploded in popularity. | |
| Jun 26, 2023 at 12:14 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | I don’t have any evidence, but it seems unlikely that an American fantasy author in the 1960s would be unaware of a major work of fantasy that Wikipedia describes as “hugely popular in America in the 1960s” and received some very laudatory reviews (in addition to some critical ones). Also The Hobbit could have been known to Zelazny and might have influenced him to read LoTR as soon as they came out. Finally, he was a member of SAGA which later went on to create the Gandalf Awards. Had he read LoTR before writing Amber? Probably. Had he read them in his lifetime? Almost certainly. | |
| Jun 26, 2023 at 11:44 | history | edited | SQB | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 26, 2023 at 11:42 | history | edited | Влад Артюх | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 26, 2023 at 10:58 | history | asked | Влад Артюх | CC BY-SA 4.0 |