/lit/ - Literature

>>21830298
Found it

>>21832861
Diana Wynne Jones was silent on her politics, but she satirized the colonies of Britain breaking free and she nursed her husband while he was ill. She also approved of spanking naughty kids and loved the lectures of Tolkien and Lewis even though they were religious and she didn not believe in God.
That seems socially conservative in the least

>>21821682
Yeah, I don't think writers should be aping Tolkien, he had a special expertise in the stuff that he focused on (linguistics, myth). I think if I had to do a list of literary fantasy LotR and Master and Margarita would be there; they are different in subgenre but that's what books with magical elements should be like, different and not strangled with straitjacket tropes
I would also put some magical realism stories there, some Victorian fantasies like the work of Lord Dunsany, and maybe the work of Alex Grin

>>21753975
>hound chasing a dove over a cliff
eh not hard to make, here you go kiddo.