The golden age of children's fantasy, in scholars' view, occurred in the mid-20th century when the genre was influenced by J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia. In the vein of Narnia, the post-war period saw rising stakes and manifestations of evil in the works of Susan Cooper and Alan Garner. Tolkien's Middle-earth led to mythopoeic fantasy in the 1970s, from authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin and Robin McKinley. Another influential writer of this period was Diana Wynne Jones, who wrote both medievalist and realist fantasies.
The golden age of children's fantasy in scholars' view occurred in the mid-20th century when the genre was influenced by J R R Tolkien's The Hobbit and C S Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia In the vein of Narnia the post-war period saw rising stakes and manifestations of evil in the works of Susan Cooper and Alan Garner Tolkien's Middle-earth led to mythopoeic fantasy in the 1970s from authors such as Ursula K Le Guin and Robin McKinley Another influential writer of this period was Diana Wynne Jones who wrote both medievalist and realist fantasies