To love, or not to love fantasy

[littlemanpoet]

Tirinor:

All genres of literature are full of crap, fantasy's crap is just funnier looking.

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I love it. That's one for the ol' memory banks. Thanks much!

Kalessin: I'll PM you about my writing.
Them and us? Who, me? [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] Nah. Are you kidding? Yeah, I admit it. No. I declare it. You bet. I just don't understand "them". I pity "them". And if that sounds arrogant, I'm sorry, really, really sorry, but I know something "they" don't and the pity is "they" know so little that "they" don't even want it, much less know what "they"'re missing. (sorry if that was a mite bit confusing)

Quantify the imagination? Ain't possible. It's as impossible as it was for Tolkien to define Faerie in his "On Faerie Stories".

What you're talking about with your exercising of the imagination and providing it tools for the sake of reinvigoration and suffusion, is Tolkien's "recovery", in a word. Not to say that your rendering of it wasn't picturesque and quite charming, which it was. Even evocative.

Sheen of heroism, eh? "On guard, you vile skid of parts, I shall lift you on high with my trusty forklift and fling you into yon truck! Touche! Ahem. Excuse me while I hike my loincloth." Hmmm. Just doesn't rate compared to Aragorn, know what I mean? Kinda fun, though...