The Folk of the Mountain Door: A Victorian-Era Pagan Fantasy raw jasper Jennifer Moon

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Tolkien's The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955)

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The Folk of the Mountain Door: A Victorian-Era Pagan Fantasy raw jasper Jennifer MoonThe revolutionary English polymath William Morris's influence on the development of the genre of fantasy fiction is today widely recognized as profound, with his The House of the Wolfings (1888) and especially his The Roots of the Mountains (1889) directly and greatly influencing English fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954 1955). Alongside Morris's two innovative fantasy novels is a third, stranger work: