Lord of the Rings | Techniques
Tolkien's use of techniques garnered from medieval literature has already been discussed in detail. Suffice to say that what was true of Tolkien's technique in The Hobbit is even more evident in The Lord of the Rings. What is new to Tolkien's masterpiece, however, is scope. With the exception of Austin Tappan Wright, author of Islandia (1942), no fantasy writer had ever created a world which was anywhere near as detailed as is Tolkien's Middle-earth. Indeed, the entire tradition of putting maps and appendices on languages, calendars, histories, and cultures in the...
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