Antagonists of Evil in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien and Nato Davitashvili by Tamar Katamadze

“…Tolkien, as a founder of fantasy genre has created the framework of fantasy characters that influences every fantasy author including Nato Davitashvili. Evidently, she took the main traits of antagonist character from Tolkien’s works which is the reason for similarity of features of the two antagonists, but the Georgian author has added many additional traits and elements from Georgian mythology which emphasize on the individuality of the author.…”
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The Critique of Colonial Cartography in N. K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by Peter Melville

“…She is by no means the only fantasy author to use first-person narration to promote postcolonial perspectives, but doing so enables her to recapture a depth of experience that is lost when worlds (both imaginary and real) are framed by the colonial cartographic gaze.…”
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The Oxford School of children’s fantasy literature by Cecire, M

“…This research directly compares medieval literature to children’s fantasy works by Tolkien, Lewis, and four other Oxford-educated children’s fantasy authors in order to reveal the genre’s debt to actual medieval texts and to the Oxford English syllabus in particular. …”