Tolkien må ha haft åsikter om Dunsanys namnskapande och ironiska humor, men när Clyde Kilby skulle hjälpa honom med arbetet på Silmarillion på 60-talet lånade han ut sitt ex av The Book of Wonder till honom, enligt John Rateliffe (http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/)

<<From my personal point of view, as a student of the history of fantasy and Tolkien's role in the creation of fantasy as a modern literary genre, the most interesting point was Kilby's revealing that one of the books Tolkien loaned him to read as preparation for working on THE SILMARILLION was Lord Dunsany's THE BOOK OF WONDER [1912].>>