# lord dunsany (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover lord dunsany. Page: Feed: --- ## [Icons of the Fantastic: Behind the Scenes](http://tolkienandfantasy.blogspot.com/2026/07/icons-of-fantastic-behind-scenes.html) _2026-07-30 · Douglas A. Anderson · Tolkien and Fantasy_ In the Spring 2026 issue of Mythlore, I reviewed the book Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection (2025), edited by Amanda T. Zehnder and David M. Brinley. The review is available freely online here. The new Summer 2026 issue of The University of Chicago Magazine has a profile of the Korshak alums, father and son, who put together the ## [More on Josef Madlener](http://tolkienandfantasy.blogspot.com/2026/07/more-on-josef-madlener.html) _2026-07-03 · Douglas A. Anderson · Tolkien and Fantasy_ I've just posted a new piece at Tolkien Oddments substack. Here is the beginning. You can read the entire piece freely at this link.More on MadlenerLast summer, I published a piece in The Journal of Tolkien Research on “Josef Madlener’s ‘Der Berggiest’: Not the Origin of Gandalf.” It is freely available here. My point basically was that it was chronologically impossible for a postcard ## [Books Dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien During His Lifetime](http://tolkienandfantasy.blogspot.com/2026/05/books-dedicated-to-jrr-tolkien-during.html) _2026-05-03 · Douglas A. Anderson · Tolkien and Fantasy_ Okay, I'm experimenting. My post on "Books Dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien During His Lifetime" is freely available at my (new) Tolkien Oddments substack I think you can link to it here. For now I have about five ideas for occasional Oddments posts, which should give me enough time to decide whether its a useful venue or whether I like blogging better. I'm not giving up on blogging. ## [Correcting the “Facts” about A. Merritt’s Autobiographical Writings](http://tolkienandfantasy.blogspot.com/2025/08/correcting-facts-about-merritts.html) _2025-08-31 · Douglas A. Anderson · Tolkien and Fantasy_ A. Merritt (1877-1943)For anyone interested in the life and works of A. Merritt, the book A. Merritt: Reflections in the Moon Pool (1985), edited by Sam Moskowitz, is an extremely frustrating resource.\* It is a hodge-podge of stray writings by Merritt (poems, stories, interviews, fragments) or about Merritt (poems in praise of Merritt, and fanzine articles on him), with interspersed and often ## [Tolkien Society Award and Oxonmoot 2025](http://tolkienandfantasy.blogspot.com/2025/08/tolkien-society-award-and-oxonmoot-2025.html) _2025-08-11 · Douglas A. Anderson · Tolkien and Fantasy_ My dragon award from the Tolkien Society, announced here (with other winners) at the end of April, arrived a few weeks ago. It looks splendid. Thanks to all involved in the selection and administration, and congratulations to all the other winners.Subsequently I was asked to give a talk at Oxonmoot (September 4th-7th), and I agreed to do so. It will be via Zoom, and my topic is "Humphrey ## [Tolkien on de Camp's "Swords & Sorcery" Anthology](http://tolkienandfantasy.blogspot.com/2025/03/tolkien-on-de-camps-swords-sorcery.html) _2025-03-08 · Douglas A. Anderson · Tolkien and Fantasy_ In July 1964, L. Sprague de Camp sent J.R.R. Tolkien a copy of his anthology, Swords & Sorcery, which had been published in December 1963. It is a collection of eight stories, with an introduction by de Camp, and colored cover art and eight interior black and white illustrations by Virgil Finlay. Tolkien already knew the art of Virgil Finlay because his American publisher, Houghton ## [Borges on Tolkien](http://tolkienandfantasy.blogspot.com/2025/01/borges-on-tolkien.html) _2025-01-04 · Douglas A. Anderson · Tolkien and Fantasy_ So far as I know, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentinian author of such magisterial fantasy stories as "The Aleph" and "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," mentioned Tolkien only twice--and not favorably. I wondered why, for it would have seemed, knowing Borges's other interests (from Anglo-Saxon to Lewis Carroll--Borges was especially well-read in British literature), that he might have been a fan. ## [Books by Richard Adams That Are Not By The Author of Watership Down](http://tolkienandfantasy.blogspot.com/2024/12/books-by-richard-adams-that-are-not-by.html) _2024-12-25 · Douglas A. Anderson · Tolkien and Fantasy_ Recently I finished a checklist of the writings of Richard Adams (1920-2016), the author of Watership Down and many other books. My checklist accounts for the first editions of his books, short stories, juvenilia, nonfiction, and a selection of interviews with him. I was surprised no one had done such a thing before. It will appear in a volume Watership Down ## [Ul de Rico (1944-2023)](http://tolkienandfantasy.blogspot.com/2024/09/ul-de-rico-1944-2023.html) _2024-09-18 · Douglas A. Anderson · Tolkien and Fantasy_ I just learned that the painter, illustrator and writer known as Ul de Rico (his full name was Ulderico Conte Gropplero di Troppenburg) passed away on 3 August 2023, a bit over a year ago, aged 79. I've written about him before, and here is the link. The Rainbow Goblins has been a favorite of mine since I first discovered it not long after U.S. publication in 1978. His family's announcement ## [Point once, get highlights (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/hXM6g262z3QB) _2024-09-18 · **Sponsored**_ Get minutes worth watching from a whole game — point once ## [Who Was "Mr Rang" in Tolkien's Letters?](http://tolkienandfantasy.blogspot.com/2024/08/who-was-mr-rang-in-tolkiens-letters.html) _2024-08-24 · Douglas A. Anderson · Tolkien and Fantasy_ In The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981), there is about eight pages worth of text comprising "Drafts for a letter to 'Mr Rang'" (Letter no. 297, pp. 379-387). I never knew there was any mystery about the identity of Mr. Rang until my friend Jessica Yates just sent me a draft of her short piece on this topic (now published here). My research of some ten years ago identified a different person.