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Genre and The Lord of the Rings

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The Genre Of The Lord Of The Rings, Alexis Levitin Jan 1970

The Genre Of The Lord Of The Rings, Alexis Levitin

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Attempts to define the genre of The Lord of the Rings, an “alien but very effective piece of work” that defies easy categorization. Settles on “a quest-story presented in an epic and fairy-tale medium.”