Siri, show me very bad takes that contradict facts in Tolkien's autobiographyhttps://twitter.com/JohnsonJeffro/status/1149739357982478336 …
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Replying to @JohnsonJeffro
he didn't mention ERB as an inspiration, and talked at length about the Germanic and Celtic myths as inspiration
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Replying to @MorlockP @JohnsonJeffro
Jeffro didn’t say ERB was a literary inspiration. He said that ERB helped create the mass market for fantasy without which Tolkien would not have sold. This computes for me, as Tolkien became popular in the US through a paperback edition put out by ACE, which reprinted old ERB.
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Replying to @JonWeichsel @JohnsonJeffro
he said "Tolkien may not have bothered without him" Tolkien was not driven by market acceptance ; he wrote The Hobbit for his children, and he wrote LOTR as a great myth for Europe. Tolkien was an academic and wrote for himself, for his fellow academics, and for God. >>>
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Excuse my pedantry: I believe it was the Book of Lost Tales (Silmarillion precursor) that was intended to be a great myth for England (not Europe.)
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I stand by my claim
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