In spite of its popularity a few decades ago, short epic fantasy is not currently well-represented in short fiction, in contrast to sagas and novels. It seems that contemporary literature has forgotten that epic-fantasy masters like Tolkien also worked on shorter formats in the genre, such as the masterful, cosmogonic Ainulindalë. Indeed, the neglect of brief narratives has led to many readers not being able to discover high-quality texts that appear in short-story compilations, even though they are written by renowned authors, such as Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, José Ángel Valente, Méndez Ferrín, González-Quevedo or Sánchez-Piñol, among others. The epic fantasy expert with a PhD in Philology, Mariano Martín Rodríguez, underlines the importance of this genre through classic and contemporary examples in Catalan, Asturian, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish. This is a necessary gesture, and a different way of celebrating the 50th anniversary of the death of J. R. R. Tolkien's, the undisputed benchmark for the genre.