Tolkien and Edwardian adventure stories

The philologist and author J. R. R. Tolkien enjoyed Edwardian adventure stories by authors such as John Buchan and H. Rider Haggard as a boy, and made use of their structure and motifs in his epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings.

The Tolkien scholar Jared Lobdell accordingly writes that the novel is in the tradition of the Edwardian adventure story. The scholars Julie Pridmore and Anna Vaninskaya note Lobdell's view, but add that other viewpoints are possible, and that Tolkien was clearly also influenced by the 20th century, including by the First World War.