This frame only really matters in the very beginning and very ending, and the Holger's friend slips into the role of the typical limited subjective narrator. He frames the tale as being related by a third party and acquaintance of Holger Carlsen (the protagonist). Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, designers of role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, inspiring the character class of paladin, the D&D alignment system (especially the original Law-Chaos dichotomy), and the D&D regenerating troll that can only be killed by fire.Īnderson structures his plot in a manner similar to A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, with the man-out-of-time-and-place being whacked into a mythic world. It is credited with having had a very heavy impact on E. This work is considered highly seminal in the development of 20th century fantasy. It was later given the full treatment and published as a novel in 1961. Tolkien had published The Hobbit, and one year before The Fellowship of the Ring. In 1953 a novella was featured in F&SF magazine about a Danish engineer who was knocked out during a battle in World War II against the Germans and awoke to find himself a famous and legendary knight errant in a fantastic version of medieval Europe.
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