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

bombur · 09-14-2002, 01:12 PM

ahhh Eol, but fantasy need not have progress simply because it is not history, but a story.

Take Tolkien, I suppose between the first and third age humans might have learned to make plate mails and form kingdoms (not a small historical step). There is perhaps some progress. But for a story one only needs a sliced period of time. One year is plenty. It is always a bonus to have history for the story. For most practical pyrpoces century of is suffices, millenia for an epic saga.

But stories need not have future. They end at "were home." If they tell the tale of medieval like period, there will not be factories.

Janne Harju

09-14-2002, 01:12 PM	#11
bombur Wight Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: finland Posts: 126	ahhh Eol, but fantasy need not have progress simply because it is not history, but a story. Take Tolkien, I suppose between the first and third age humans might have learned to make plate mails and form kingdoms (not a small historical step). There is perhaps some progress. But for a story one only needs a sliced period of time. One year is plenty. It is always a bonus to have history for the story. For most practical pyrpoces century of is suffices, millenia for an epic saga. But stories need not have future. They end at "were home." If they tell the tale of medieval like period, there will not be factories. Janne Harju