The Book Of Wonder And The Last Book Of Wonder Books That Inspired Tolkien

The Book Of Wonder And The Last Book Of Wonder ?ABook That Inspired TolkienWith Original Illustrations.   the Professor?s Bookshelf  lord Dunsany Wrote More Than Eighty Books During His Career In The Early th CenturyProfessor J.r.rTolkien, Author Of The Lord Of The Rings And The Hobbit, Enjoyed Reading Dunsany?s Works AFact Which He Acknowledged Numerous Times In His LettersTolkien Was Twenty Years Old In , When ?the Book Of Wonder?, Illustrated By Sidney Sime, First Appeared In British Bookshops And LibrariesThe Short Stories In This Book Are Gothic In Style, Poetic, Mysterious And Dreamlike Often Nightmarish, Horrific And Almost HallucinatoryNumerous Accoutrements Of Fantasy Are Found Within The Realms Of ?the Book Of Wonder And The Last Book Of Wonder?, As They Are In Middleearth, Talismans, Precious Metals, Jewels, Signalling Horns, Dark, Dangerous Woods Infested With Evil Spiders And MoreARed, Glowing, Allseeing Eye Opens Above Dunsany?s Frightening Fantasyland, Just As The Eye Of Sauron Glares Across Middle EarthThis Edition Is Ornamented With The Original Pictures Printed In The Edition Sixteen Intricate Illustrations And Numerous Ornate Initial Capitals By Renowned Fantasy Artist Sidney SimeDartthornton?s Introduction Discusses Intriguing Links Between Dunsany?s And Tolkien?s Works, Noting Also That In An Unusual Twist, Dunsany Used To Write His Stories Based On Sime?s Illustrations, Rather Than The Other Way AroundDale JNelson, In ?possible Echoes Of Blackwood And Dunsany In Tolkien,s Fantasy?, Concludes, ?tolkien?s Letters And Other Sources For His Life Do Not Say Very Much About His Recreational Reading, But Given His Lifelong Interest In Literary Fantasy And The Parallels Adduced Above, One Seems To Be Justified In Suspecting That Tolkien Was Indebted To ?Dunsany.?
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