Question

Ursula K. Le Guin noted that when judged by the standards of fantasy, “modernist realist fiction...is suffocating and unimaginative” in an essay titled for these two groups and “the Fantasists.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these two groups which title a 1936 lecture that divides Beowulf into Part A: youth and Part B: age, and argues for “accepting Grendel and the dragon.”
ANSWER: the monsters AND the critics [accept “The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists”]
[10e] “The Monsters and the Critics” is by this writer. Le Guin’s essay praises this author’s The Lord of the Rings as a hallmark of fantasy literature.
ANSWER: J. R. R. Tolkien [or John Ronald Reuel Tolkien]
[10h] This author of The Tough Guide to Fantasyland recalled being one of only two students who went to Tolkien’s lectures. Sophie becomes a cleaning lady for the title wizard in this author’s novel Howl’s Moving Castle.
ANSWER: Diana Wynne Jones
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