Well, tolkien, along with his friend Lewis was really the first person to write a real fantasy book. I think that is mainly because all previous fantasy was mythology, but of course his stuff was written too recently to be classed as mythology. Also he worked so hard - no one has ever put that much work into creating a world as far as I know (and he created SAM :-)
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"Good bye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it." -TTT
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point - Lewis
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