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 is defined as fantasy fiction set in an alternative, entirely fictional (" secondary ") world, rather than the real, or " primary " world.

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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* 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 lists Gná thirteenth, and says that Frigg sends her off to different worlds to run errands.

Frequent ' types ' of universe explored in sidewise and alternative history works include worlds in which the Nazis won the Second World War, such as in The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, SS-GB by Len Deighton and Fatherland by Robert Harris, and worlds in which the Roman Empire never fell, such as in Roma Eterna by Robert Silverberg and Romanitas by Sophia McDougall.

The High Bay Cleanroom located in building 29 is the worlds largest ISO 7 cleanroom with 1. 3 million cubic feet of space.

The Gaunt Man therefore began forming alliances with the High Lords of several other worlds.

Many fantasy worlds have High Elf races:

In the serial, the Sixth Doctor is tried by the High Council of Time Lords for breaking several of the laws of Gallifrey, the Time Lords ' home world, including interference with outside worlds and genocide.

The High Dingy Doo says that Sandy's grandfather likely knows how to save the worlds from destruction, but that his spirit can only communicate with someone who is related to him by blood.

Initially composed of standing navies and marines from the restored Systems Commonwealth's member worlds, the new High Guard is gradually inching its way up to the level of the old, though it is expected to take decades ( if not centuries ) to reach such levels.

Other conservative Lutherans, however, may favor High Church Lutheranism which remains generally favorable to the traditional doctrine of Apostolic Succession ( see above ).

High capacity bus rapid transit services may use the bi-articulated bus or tram style buses such as Wright StreetCar and the Irisbus Civis.

Woolf suggests that Constantine and his cousin Donald may have passed Giric's reign in exile in Ireland where their aunt Máel Muire was wife of two successive High Kings of Ireland, Áed Findliath and Flann Sinna.

High Lamas may also have a vision by a dream or if the Dalai Lama was cremated, they will often monitor the direction of the smoke as an indication of the direction of the rebirth.

High ceiling diuretics are diuretics that may cause a substantial diuresis – up to 20 % of the filtered load of NaCl and water.

High dietary intake of fruits and vegetables is associated with reduction in cancer, and some scientists suspect quercetin may be partly responsible.

Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with both supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss Brooks, and as the Rydell High School principal in the films Grease and Grease 2.

High performance aircraft that have FBW controls ( also called CCVs or Control-Configured Vehicles ) may be deliberately designed to have low or even negative stability in some flight regimes, the rapid-reacting CCV controls compensating for the lack of natural stability.

A minority argument for a date between AD 37 and AD 61 for the Gospel typically suggests that Luke's address to " Most Excellent Theophilus ," may be a reference to the Roman-imposed High Priest of Israel between AD 37 and AD 41, Theophilus ben Ananus.

High hemoglobin levels may be caused by exposure to high altitudes, smoking, dehydration, or tumors.

Scholars have often speculated that Hamlet < nowiki ></ nowiki >' s Polonius might have been inspired by William Cecil ( Lord Burghley )— Lord High Treasurer and chief counsellor to Queen Elizabeth I. E. K. Chambers suggested Polonius's advice to Laertes may have echoed Burghley's to his son Robert Cecil.

The Persians may have experimented initially with ruling Yehud as a Dividic client-kingdom under descendants of Jehoiachin, but by the mid – 5th century BCE Yehud had become in practice a theocracy, ruled by hereditary High Priests and a Persian-appointed governor, frequently Jewish, charged with keeping order and seeing that tribute was paid.

He learned theurgy from Maximus of Ephesus, a student of Iamblichus ; his system bears some resemblance to the Neoplatonism of Plotinus ; Polymnia Athanassiadi has brought new attention to his relations with Mithraism, although whether he was initiated into it remains debatable ; and certain aspects of his thought ( such as his reorganization of paganism under High Priests, and his fundamental monotheism ) may show Christian influence.

For certain terrorist and organised crime offences the Director of Public Prosecutions may issue a certificate that the accused be tried by the Special Criminal Court composed of three judges instead of a jury, one from the District Court, Circuit Court and High Court.

Jonathon may have been Alexander Jannaeus, the High Priest and Hasmonean ruler who governed Judea from 103 BC-76 BC.

However, the expulsion of the UK's High Commissioner in April may change this relationship.

High temperatures and humidity may result in heat-related illnesses, including heat stroke which can be fatal.

High risk infants may be identified by fetal tachycardia, bradycardia or absence of fetal accelerations upon CTG in utero, at birth the infant may look cachexic and show signs of yellowish meconium staining on skin, nail and the umbillical cord, these infants usually progress onto Infant Respiratory distress syndrome within 4 hours.

High estimates by pagan authors may reach several times that number.

High blood acidity may be diet-related, and is a known antagonist of bone.

Of the three leading architects of the Roman High Baroque, only Francesco Borromini fared not so well under Alexander ; this may be because he thought Borromini ’ s architectural forms willful but also Borromini could be notoriously difficult.

Privy Counsellors, Ambassadors and High Commissioners, senior civil servants, senior military officers, members of important committees and commissions, and other officials are selected, and in most cases may be removed, by the Prime Minister.

High doses may lead to convulsions.