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==Fantasy in Media== | ==Fantasy in Media== | ||
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An important factor in the development of the fantasy genre was the arrival of magazines devoted to fantasy fiction. When ''Weird Tales'', the first English language fantasy fiction magazine was created, the pulp magazine format was at the height of its popularity.<ref name="Fantasy">"Fantasy." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. Web. 3 July 2015.</ref> This magazine brought fantasy fiction in audiences in both the U.S. and Britain, and because of this magazine, science fiction and fantasy began to be associated with each other.<ref name="Fantasy">"Fantasy." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. Web. 3 July 2015.</ref> In 1950s, epic fantasy hit mainstream with J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy, ''The Lord of the Rings''. | An important factor in the development of the fantasy genre was the arrival of magazines devoted to fantasy fiction. When ''Weird Tales'', the first English language fantasy fiction magazine was created, the pulp magazine format was at the height of its popularity.<ref name="Fantasy">"Fantasy." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. Web. 3 July 2015.</ref> This magazine brought fantasy fiction in audiences in both the U.S. and Britain, and because of this magazine, science fiction and fantasy began to be associated with each other.<ref name="Fantasy">"Fantasy." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. Web. 3 July 2015.</ref> In 1950s, epic fantasy hit mainstream with J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy, ''The Lord of the Rings''. | ||