it also puts me in mind of perhaps the first (pre-Tolkien - it predates LotR by several decades) modern high fantasy novel, ER Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, which is written in meticulously reconstructed 17th-century style prose.
Ahem. Excuse me, Wood Beyond the World by William Morris predates The Worm Ouroboros by a few decades. It directly inspired Narnia, and indirectly inspired LOTR. And it is written entirely in reconstructed Chaucerian English.
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Date: 2023-11-27 04:05 am (UTC)Ahem. Excuse me, Wood Beyond the World by William Morris predates The Worm Ouroboros by a few decades. It directly inspired Narnia, and indirectly inspired LOTR. And it is written entirely in reconstructed Chaucerian English.