FIRTH@TL-20B.ARPA (09/22/85)
From: FIRTH@TL-20B.ARPA Paul Chisholm's thesis seems to be that "fantasy" became popular after the publication of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings in "1965". Unfortunately, LOTR was actually published ten years earlier: the first volume in 1954 and the other two in 1955, by George Allan and Unwin. It was first distributed in the USA in 1956 by Houghton Mifflin. The work was reviewed in the Herald Tribune, in The New York Times, and in The Nation, all in 1956. And almost nothing happened. Maybe it just wasn't "steam engine time"? Robert Firth -------