Timeline for Did Roger Zelazny ever read The Lord of the Rings?
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| Jun 28, 2023 at 9:38 | comment | added | ConnieMnemonic | As an entertaining aside, I recently procured a book of interviews with PKD, which contained a foreword from Zelazny. He recounts an entertaining anecdote about the infamous Metz SF Con, where a pair of confused Frenchmen approach him, asking if "Monsieur Dick really wants to start his own religion with himself as the Pope?" | |
| Jun 27, 2023 at 17:41 | comment | added | T.E.D. | I wouldn't consider that latter quote to be any kind of evidence that he didn't consider Tolkien an influence. What he's saying there is that he specifically gets asked about Weston and Farmer a lot. Exclusion from that list only implies that he didn't get asked about that work a lot, not that he didn't take anything from it. | |
| Jun 27, 2023 at 14:27 | comment | added | Barmar | The way he answered the 73 question suggests that there are many authors he considered great, and he was just listing a handful. So he might have just chosen a different handful in the 69 interview. | |
| Jun 26, 2023 at 19:03 | vote | accept | Влад Артюх | ||
| Jun 26, 2023 at 18:47 | history | edited | Hypnosifl | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 26, 2023 at 17:57 | comment | added | Klaus Æ. Mogensen | Zelazny has stated that a major influence on his Amber books was Philip José Farmer's World of Ters series: zelazny-ru.livejournal.com/71876.html | |
| Jun 26, 2023 at 15:57 | comment | added | user888379 | I can see Zelazny, quite reasonably, not regarding Tolkien as a major influence. Now Raymond Chandler, on the other hand... | |
| Jun 26, 2023 at 15:43 | history | answered | Hypnosifl | CC BY-SA 4.0 |