general media High Fantasy Thread! Movies, TV shows, Books, Media and more!

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OK I am a HUGE fan of high fantasy anything. Be it video games, books, movies, TV shows, short stories, art work or anything else. So I decided to start this thread so people can share all their favorite High Fantasy media. Now if you don't know what high fantasy is this is the wikipedia description.

"High fantasy is a sub-genre of fantasy fiction, defined either by its setting in an imaginary world or by the epic stature of itscharacters, themes and plot. Quintessential works of high fantasy, such as The Lord of the Rings, Malazan Book of the Fallen, andThe Wheel of Time, have both of these attributes. High fantasy exists on one side of a spectrum, opposite low fantasy or urban fantasy, which are set in more realistic worlds. Some works, such as The Chronicles of Narnia, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant,The Mortal Instruments, and The Neverending Story, concern characters that travel between realistic and imaginary settings, and are thus difficult to classify on this spectrum. High fantasy is often classified as epic fantasy; although the two subgenres are extremely similar, the latter usually contains a wider range of main characters."

 

​Now the way I define High fantasy is any medieval fantasy story of epic proportions set in a non real world. So while Narnia, for example, is medieval fantasy it has very real link to the real world and therefore is not high fantasy. Examples of high fantasy are, Lord of the rings, Game of Thrones, The Inheritance series, Skyrim and the whole elder scrolls franchise, Dungeons and Dragons, Magic the Gathering, and The Name of the Wind just to name a few. 

 For those of you who don't know The genre of high fantasy, also known as epic fantasy, was created by author of the Lord of the rings, J.R.R. Tolkien with his creation of Middle Earth, Beriland. He is a personal Hero of mine for this reason and many others.

 

So please everypony feel free to recommend books, movies, and Tv shows, discus media, Post art or music, and generally talk about high Fantasy. I do have to ask that we stay on topic and post ONLY about high fantasy. While books like Harry Potter, and Narnia are very good they are not high fantasy and therefore don't belong in this thread. If you are unsure about something PM me first and I will let you know if it fits the Genre. So lets get talking!

Edited July 3, 2014 by Eldwain

[Archi the Atmomancer 564]

High fantasy is vastly underrated, everyone's going for the grimdark settings these days.

 

I just started reading Lord of the Rings again and it's surpassed Game of Thrones despite me saying only a few months ago that Game of Thrones is better than any of Tolkien's stuff.

 

I don't think Game of Thrones is high-fantasy, it's not really "epic" and it's a very low magic setting. Admittedly magic is returning but it's but widely used and I get the impression that it was only available to a select group of people when it was around.

 

Then again, maybe it's becoming high fantasy as the books go on?

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High fantasy is vastly underrated, everyone's going for the grimdark settings these days.

 

I just started reading Lord of the Rings again and it's surpassed Game of Thrones despite me saying only a few months ago that Game of Thrones is better than any of Tolkien's stuff.

 

I don't think Game of Thrones is high-fantasy, it's not really "epic" and it's a very low magic setting. Admittedly magic is returning but it's but widely used and I get the impression that it was only available to a select group of people when it was around.

 

Then again, maybe it's becoming high fantasy as the books go on?

No you are right, it is barely high fantasy. It fits the bill because there is technically magic, even though like you said it is basically non existent. It is also set in a medieval, non real world, and I personally think that an almost continent wide war counts as epic. 

But I do understand what you mean, While it "technically" is high fantasy, it barley qualifies. 

  And Yes I think Tolkien's stuff is WAY better than Game of Thrones. But other than MLP, Tolkien's works are my favorite, so that is a bias opinion. 

[Jorguil 54]

Well I agree High fantasy is great just recently went through a game by the name of the immortal it had a very subtle means of telling itself through out while holding mystery with many creatures of fantasy about.

[UnicornWolf 8]

The Dolorous Castle is a short story by Matthew W Quinn in his short story anthology 'Flashing Steel Flashing Swords' and apart from being very well written has an interesting back story, a fantasy universe that has suffered a meteor strike