Are You Writing Serious Fantasy? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 09-16-2002, 07:35 AM

My my my. It has gotten lively here, not to mention substantive. Which is great.

Lila: By all means, I concur with Nar, use the archetypes of fantasy. King, dragon, knight, it'll be fresh if you tell the story in a way that is both true to your vision and true to fantasy.

True to fantasy? Well, now, that is a matter of debate, which Eol and bombur have been doing quite handily. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

bombur: Regarding the idealisms of liberty, etc., I must disagree. It would not be the kind of fantasy that I personally would write, but I'm convinced that it could be done, and done well in such a way that is true to fantasy.

True to fantasy? Hmmmmm... what does that mean?

Urban fantasy pretty much explodes your hypothesis, actually. Naaramare is writing such a story. It has all the modern paraphernalia, hospitals even, and magic and Elves. Very convincing because it's well written and by the way quite self-referential, which is odd for fantasy. Certainly, Tolkien would never have written it, but that does not make it any less fantasy. I don't think there's a dark lord in it, but it does have its evil power-mongers. So I'd say it's true to fantasy.

True to fantasy.... Hmmmm... what does that mean? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

To be continued.

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09-16-2002, 07:35 AM	#11
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	My my my. It has gotten lively here, not to mention substantive. Which is great. Lila: By all means, I concur with Nar, use the archetypes of fantasy. King, dragon, knight, it'll be fresh if you tell the story in a way that is both true to your vision and true to fantasy. True to fantasy? Well, now, that is a matter of debate, which Eol and bombur have been doing quite handily. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] bombur: Regarding the idealisms of liberty, etc., I must disagree. It would not be the kind of fantasy that I personally would write, but I'm convinced that it could be done, and done well in such a way that is true to fantasy. True to fantasy? Hmmmmm... what does that mean? Urban fantasy pretty much explodes your hypothesis, actually. Naaramare is writing such a story. It has all the modern paraphernalia, hospitals even, and magic and Elves. Very convincing because it's well written and by the way quite self-referential, which is odd for fantasy. Certainly, Tolkien would never have written it, but that does not make it any less fantasy. I don't think there's a dark lord in it, but it does have its evil power-mongers. So I'd say it's true to fantasy. True to fantasy.... Hmmmm... what does that mean? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] To be continued.