Are You Writing Serious Fantasy?

[Thinhyandoiel]

Nar, I'm sorry to hear about your friend. I've never known that sorrow. Unrequited love though? Yes, that was a biting pain. It was because of that first time though, that most of my personality changed to what it is now.
For those at FWW, mine is obviously immersion fantasy. Though, I have no index of names or encyclopedia like Nazgul does. Thinking about it though. I have a map! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] And your uniting factors as you called them, are quite true I find! The fellowship thing. Just look at any Final Fantasy game, which is definately immersion fantasy, and you get that fellowship factor. Always it's about 5-8 completely different people who complete one another and have a remarkable bond of friendship in the end. That's true with Tolkien (obviously [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]) In the end, you could get no stronger friendship than Legolas and Gimli, Sam and Frodo, Merry and Pippin (though that one was already there, now wasn't it?). My story doesn't have more than three races. Mortal humans, Elves, and sprites. Or more precisely, half-sprites. But there's only one, the rest of her race left her lands many years ago. There are three Elves in my "fellowship" and three humans. However, the enemy (who I'm still working out...dangit) has his werewolves.
The battle against an ancient evil. True, again. It's almost cliche isn't it? [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] In mine, the evil isn't well-known. No one even knows the guy's name. It's a big mystery. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Lila! That's an interesting idea! I know of a few video games that had that happening (sorry! Fanatic RPG gamer here! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]) and it turned out some ... interesting results. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Now, I'm going way back up to over-used plot devices. What about...running off, kill the dragon, save the princess, claim the riches, become king? It's a fairy tale cliche and the Hobbit sort used it. But with a twist that I thought was original and well, cool. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]