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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

If you're talking about Tolkien, he wasn't the originator of the fantasy genre. It existed long before him and was generally known for being very inconsistent in worldbuilding. His main innovation was inventing a style of fantasy worldbuilding which was actually realistic.