Fantasy?

What is fantasy?

fantasy |ˈfantəsē|
noun ( pl. -sies)

A genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure, esp. in a setting other than the real world.

 Dragons, magic, strange creatures, elves, dwarfs, goblins...all of these things are usually found in a fantasy setting. Fantasy now is original, filled with garbage, general cheeziness. Granted, not all fantasy novels are junk, but many are.

   So what's a girl to do?

    a) Actually retake the fantasy genre, I have no problem with writing dragons, they just have to be written properly. Personally, I think we can re-take it if there's an influx of Christian and Catholic writers who really love what they do.

b) A.R.M.

           Alternate-Reality Medieval is a fantasy setting, another world, magic may be present.Not as much stress put on the fantasy creatures such as elves or dwarfs. It isn't a very set genre yet, relatively new and very, very unknown. And when you think about it, and fantasy could really be considered an alternate-reality. The whole world could have been formed differently at creation. It's a sub-genre of fantasy that moves back towards the old typological aspect like Narnia and the epicness LOTR and away from the more mainstream books like Eragon. So A.R.M. could use some supporters out there, peeps. Let's retake the fantasy and make it a bit more epic, shall we?

Pass the word :)

 

 

 

Comments

[Maria Restuccia]

Yeah, you pretty much covered it all, Mokka! But one thing I want to say, it doesn't really matter what kind of creatures are in it, but I'm kinda tired of the Elves and Dwarves, because it seems only Tolkien could pull them off right, so I'm backing you up there...

Also, emphasizing what you said: this IS fantasy. Just fantasy as it should have been, fantasy as it started out, with Tolkien and the great ones. I don't know if we can do anything like the great ones, we can't try to copy them, we shouldn't try to go against them, so we should try to imitate them as far as is fitting.

Fantasy just seems to mean something else today, Anime girls with purple hair and red eyes and hardly any clothing on, dark magic, dead rising, all sorts of sick stuff. Me and Mokka, we just wanna get away from that. So I hope other people do too!