{"id":25424,"date":"2003-08-26T19:40:54","date_gmt":"2003-08-27T00:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/08\/26\/tales-before-tolkien-out-today\/"},"modified":"2003-08-26T19:40:54","modified_gmt":"2003-08-27T00:40:54","slug":"tales-before-tolkien-out-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/08\/26\/25424-tales-before-tolkien-out-today\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tales Before Tolkien&#8217; Out Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><b>Doug Anderson<\/b> writes: Today is the official publication day for my new anthology, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0345458559\/qid=1061944473\/theoneringnet\" TARGET=NEW><b>TALES BEFORE TOLKIEN: THE ROOTS OF MODERN FANTASY<\/a><\/b>. It is being published by Ballantine Books simultaneously in hardcover and trade paperback. The idea of the anthology was to collect a number of rare fantasy stories that directly influenced Tolkien, along with other stories to show what the genre was like before THE HOBBIT was published in 1937.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the listing of the full contents:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>Introduction\n<li>&#8220;The Elves&#8221; by Ludwig Tieck\n<li>&#8220;The Golden Key&#8221;  by George Macdonald\n<li>&#8220;Puss-Cat Mew&#8221;  by E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen\n<li>&#8220;The Griffin and the Minor Canon&#8221; by Frank R. Stockton\n<li>&#8220;The Demon Pope&#8221;  by Richard Garnett\n<li>&#8220;The Story of Sigurd&#8221;  by Andrew Lang\n<li>&#8220;The Folk of the Mountain Door&#8221;  by William Morris\n<li>&#8220;Black Heart and White Heart&#8221; by H. Rider Haggard\n<li>&#8220;The Dragon Tamers&#8221; by E. Nesbit\n<li>&#8220;The Far Islands&#8221; by John Buchan\n<li>&#8220;The Drawn Arrow&#8221;  by Clemence Housman\n<li>&#8220;The Enchanted Buffalo&#8221; by L. Frank Baum\n<li>&#8220;Chu-bu and Sheemish&#8221; by Lord Dunsany\n<li>&#8220;The Baumoff Explosive&#8221; by William Hope Hodgson\n<li>&#8220;The Regent of the North&#8221; by Kenneth Morris\n<li>&#8220;The Coming of the Terror&#8221; by Arthur Machen\n<li>&#8220;The Elf Trap&#8221;  by Francis Stevens\n<li>&#8220;The Thin Queen of Elfhame&#8221; by James Branch Cabell\n<li>&#8220;The Woman of the Wood&#8221; by A. Merritt\n<li>&#8220;Golithos the Ogre&#8221;  by E. A. Wyke-Smith [an extract from THE MARVELLOUS LAND OF SNERGS]\n<li>&#8220;The Story of Alwina&#8221; by Austin Tappan Wright\n<li>&#8220;A Christmas Play&#8221;  by David Lindsay\n<li>Author Notes and Recommended Reading   [ten pages!]<br \/><\/u>\n<p><center>[<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0345458559\/qid=1061944473\/theoneringnet\" TARGET=NEW>Order <i>TALES BEFORE TOLKIEN: THE ROOTS OF MODERN FANTASY<\/i> today!<\/a>]<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Anderson writes: Today is the official publication day for my new anthology, TALES BEFORE TOLKIEN: THE ROOTS&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-6C4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}