LovedI still haven't read all of this and I've had it since it came out and it's like 30 years so I'm less interested in fantasy but it's absolutely fantastic
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The Encyclopedia of fantasy (1997)
Creators: Mixed This huge volume is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of the fantasy field, offering an exciting new analysis of this highly diverse and hugely popular sphere of literature, from precursors such as Shakespeare and Dante, through Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald and L. Frank Baum to J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and their modern successors, like Ursula K. Le Guin, Peter S. Beagle, Stephen R. Donaldson and Jostein Gaarder. With over 4,000 entries and over 1 million words, it covers every aspect of fantasy - in literature, films, television, opera, art and comics.
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Mixedclute in the encyclopedia fantasy actually had a concept called the full fantasy which again hints at this there's a sense of wrongness with the lambs there's a problem which once the hero has successfully completed their journey this wrongness has been corrected the land is healed and restored
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