It is sometimes known as Low fantasy in contrast to High fantasy, which is primarily serious in intent and tone.

High fantasy or epic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy that is set in invented or parallel worlds.

High fantasy was brought to fruition through the work of authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.

High fantasy has become one of the two genres most commonly associated with the general term fantasy, the other being sword and sorcery, which is typified by the works of Robert E. Howard.

High fantasy worlds may be more or less closely based on real world milieux, or on legends such as the Arthurian Cycle.

High fantasy is the most popular and successful subgenre of the fantasy fiction.

High fantasy is not by any means limited to a male protagonist, as seen in such works as Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion Cecelia Dart-Thornton's Ashalind and P. C.

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Category: High fantasy novels

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* High elves, a list of light elves from other fantasy settings

With her 1965 book Year of the Unicorn ( third in the High Hallack spinoff of her Witch World series ), she used a young woman as the protagonist, which was at the time uncommon for American works of fantasy.

Walker was trying to develop a Saturday Morning schedule that resembled an old school Saturday matinee at the movies with a wide range of horror ( Teen Wolf ) Science Fiction, ( Galaxy High School ) Comedy ( Pee Wee's Playhouse ) and western fantasy ( Wildfire ).

Category: High fantasy novels

Category: High fantasy novels

High sensitivity in radio telescopes is achieved by reducing the bandwidth of the receiver ; ;

Like the recent Scheherazade from London ( High Fidelity, Sept. 1961 ), it is successful because emphasis has been placed on good musical and engineering practices rather than on creating sensational effects.

This is particularly acute for those who attended Midwood High School directly across the street from Brooklyn College.

An excellent example of a successful location of a new vocational high school is the Dunbar Vocational High School in Chicago.

He is a native of New Orleans and attended Allen Elementary school, Fortier High school and Soule business college.

The jail sentence is to begin the day after Sarkees graduates from Eastern High School in June.

Tim Larson, a junior at Wilson High School and president of Spice-Nice, is the young executive who guided his firm to the top-ranking position over the 4,500 other Junior Achievement companies in the United States and Canada.

The most famous undergraduate of South Philadelphia High School is a current bobby-sox idol, Dreamboat Cacophonist Fabian ( real name: Fabian Forte ), 17, and last week it developed that he will remain an undergraduate for a while.

* Vorarlbergerisch, spoken in Vorarlberg, is a High Alemannic dialect.

The High Court of American Samoa is the highest court below the United States Supreme Court in American Samoa, with the District Courts below it.

The High Court is located in the capital of Pago Pago.

The composition is jammed by clashing colors, which is unlike what we've seen in the balanced, natural, and dramatic colors of the High Renaissance.

" Eleanor Audeley ", wife of Sir John Davies, is said to have been brought before the High Commission in 1634 for extravagances, stimulated by the discovery that her name could be transposed to " Reveale, O Daniel ", and to have been laughed out of court by another anagram submitted by Sir John Lambe, the dean of the Arches, " Dame Eleanor Davies ", " Never soe mad a ladie ".

The Aar ( German Aare ), a tributary of the High Rhine, is the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland.

The German spoken today over the range of the former Alemanni is termed Alemannic German, and is recognised among the subgroups of the High German languages.

The High German consonant shift is thought to have originated around the 5th century either in Alemannia or among the Lombards ; before that the dialect spoken by Alemannic tribes was little different from that of other West Germanic peoples.

Aachen is at the western end of the Benrath line that divides High German to the south from the rest of the West Germanic speech area to the north.

In the Philippines, the Albertus Magnus Building at the University of Santo Tomas that houses the Conservatory of Music, College of Tourism and Hospitality Management, College of Education, and UST Education High School is named in his honor.

In Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon, Aurelianus is depicted as the aging High King of Britain, a " too-ambitious " son of a Western Roman Emperor.

He is poisoned soon after becoming High King of Britain, and Uther succeeds him.

The " Allegory of Music " is a popular theme in painting ; in this example, Lippi uses symbol s popular during the High Renaissance, many of which refer to Greek mythology.

* An American high school, Carnegie Vanguard High School in Houston, Texas, is named after him

The ACT public education system schooling is normally split up into Pre-School, Primary School ( K-6 ), High School ( 7 – 10 ) and College ( 11 – 12 ) followed by studies at university or TAFE.