(laughs!) Tolkien did NOT create fantasy, Xenic! That's a common misconception coming from people who adore him, though. Here's a list of other fantasy authors. His name is at the top for POPULARITY. # The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (J.R.R. Tolkien) # A Wizard of Earthsea/The Tombs of Atuan/The Farthest Shore (Ursula K. LeGuin) # Dune/Children of Dune (Frank Herbert) # Farenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) # Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell) # Brave New World (Alduous Huxley) # Replay (Ken Grimwood) # Altered Carbon (Richard K. Morgan) # The Great Book of Amber (Roger Zelazny) # Hyperion/Fall of Hyperion (Dan Simmons) # Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein) # Ender's Game/Speaker for the Dead/Xenocide/Children of the Mind (Orson Scott Card) # The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett) # Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) # The Iliad (Homer) # The Odyssey (Homer) # Jude the Obscure (D.H. Lawrence) # The Lords of Discipline (Pat Conroy) # Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) # The Naked and the Dead (Norman Mailer) # Elric of Melnibone (Michael Moorcock) # The Sword of Shannara (Terry Brooks) # Ringworld (Larry Niven) # Digital Fortress (Dan Brown) # White Noise (Don DeLillo) # Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray) # The Woodlanders (D.H. Lawrence) # The Summons (John Grisham) # The Testament (John Grisham) # Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein) # Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy) # The Invisible Man (H.G. Wells) # The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Robert Heinlein) # American Gods (Neil Gaiman) # Taps (Willie Morris) # Broken Angels (Richard K. Morgan) # Bird by Bird [non-fiction] (Anne Lamott) # Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence) # A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith) # Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon) # Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer Part II: Lords of Destruction (James Silke) # Wieland, or The Transformation (Charles Brockden Brown) # The Once and Future King (T.H. White) # Homeport (Nora Roberts) # The Giver (Lois Lowry) # Bleak House (Charles Dickens) # The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) # Tender is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald) # The Jungle (John Sinclair) # Call of the Wild (Jack London) # Lord of Light (Roger Zelazny) # Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Phillip K. Dick) # My Teacher Is An Alien/My Teacher Fried My Brains/My Teacher Glows In the Dark/My Teacher Flunked the Planet (Bruce Coville) # The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) # A Wrinkle in Time/A Wind in the Door/A Swiftly Tilting Planet/Many Waters (Madeleine L'Engle) # Anastasia Has the Answers (Lois Lowry) # Dreamcatcher (Stephen King) # The Chamber (John Grisham) # The Batman Murders (Craig Shaw Gardner) # House Made of Dawn (N. Scott Momaday) # Walden (Henry David Thoreau) # Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) # The Thin Red Line (James Jones) # Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck) # Moll Flanders (Daniel Dafoe) # Journey to the Center of the Earth (Jules Verne) # The Lord of the Flies (William Gerald Golding) # Shattered Chains (Magic: The Gathering) (Clayton Emery) # The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy) # Foundation (Isaac Asimov) # Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) # The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) # Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy) # A Day No Pigs Would Die (Robert Newton Peck) # I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou) # A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) # The Bretheren (John Grisham)* # The Silmarillion (J. R. R. Tolkien)* # The Awakening (Kate Chopin)* # Across Five Aprils (Irene Hunt)* # The Other Wind (Ursula K. LeGuin)* # The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)* # Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time Book 1: Predator (William F. Wu)* # # SHORT STORIES/COLLECTIONS: # The Collected Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) # The Dubliners (James Joyce) # Tales From Earthsea (Ursula K. LeGuin) # The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre # Short Stories of John Cheever # Short Stories of Edgar Allen Poe # I, Robot (Isaac Asimov) # Collected Robot Short Stories of Isaac Asimov Vol.I-II # The Casualty (Heinrich Boll) # Azazel (Isaac Asimov) # The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving) Now, would you say that Britney Spears CREATED pop music, just because she's the most popular? Literature isn't about popularity. There were goblins, elves, and dragons long before there was Tolkien, my friends. He's not original, and her certainly didn't CREATE fantasy, silly Xenic! No more than Isaac Aasimov CREATED robots. I stand firm on my position, and you stand corrected.