artanis_neravar said:
LordRoyal said:
artanis_neravar said:
LordRoyal said:
spartan231490 said:
As for LoTR, I'll give you fantasy in general. I never disputed that. But if that's the definition of high fantasy, then why is high fantasy even a different genre than fantasy? Really?
High Fantasy is hardly a different genre as much as a subgenre. Like how "Whodunit" is a subgenre of mystery.
High fantasy is fantasy that happens in a separate "world"
Low fantasy happens in our world, so LotR is actually low fantasy
http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Middle_Earth
I didn't know there were giant spiders and dwarves in our world.
Extinct, Tolkien himself said that LotR took place on Earth, just in the past
Middle Earth seems more like it was based on Earth, just really fictionalized. Given how Tolkein named deities and even massive civilizations I think he was trying to make it seem like his fantasy world was just like Earth, but different altogether.
Also this:
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060724044232/lotr/images/8/83/Arda.png
If anything Middle Earth is Earth only in name alone from the author. Otherwise it is completely different to the world we inhabit today.