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

The term " Low Fantasy " is used to represent other types of fantasy, however, so while comic fantasies may also correctly be classified as low fantasy, many examples of low fantasy are not comic in nature.

* Low fantasy

* Low fantasy

* Fantasy / Low fantasy

Low fantasies are set in the real world but necessarily not in modern age, in which case they would not be contemporary fantasy.

Category: Low fantasy novels

Category: Low fantasy novels

Category: Low fantasy novels

Category: Low fantasy novels

Category: Low fantasy novels

The fantasy writer and paleontologist Caitlín R. Kiernan has used Red Mountain, particularly the area west of U. S. Route 31 and the Red Mountain cut, as the setting for four of her novels – Silk ( 1998 ), Threshold ( 2001 ), Low Red Moon ( 2003 ), and, to a much lesser extent, Murder of Angels ( 2004 ).

Low fantasy is a sub-genre of fantasy fiction involving " nonrational happenings that are without causality or rationality because they occur in the rational world where such things are not supposed to occur.

" Low fantasy stories are set in the real world.

Low fantasy is contrasted with high fantasy, which takes place in a completely fictional fantasy world setting ( partly or entirely, as high fantasy may start from or connect to the real world in places ).

Low fantasy places relatively less emphasis on typical elements associated with fantasy, setting a narrative in real-world environments with elements of the fantastical.

Low fantasy is characterised by being set in the real (" Primary ") world, or a rational and familiar fictional world, with the inclusion of magical elements.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

The latest Low is a puzzler.

But there is a difference between the present volume and the early Low.

Low seems to have supported Eden at first and then relented because things worked out differently, so there is no fire in his eye.

* In Astrophysics, auto-correlation is used to study and characterize the spatial distribution of galaxies in the Universe and in multi-wavelength observations of Low Mass X-ray Binaries.

* Low brass is a copper-zinc alloy containing 20 % zinc with a light golden color and excellent ductility ; it is used for flexible metal hoses and metal bellows.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

Low vision is sometimes used to describe visual acuities from 20 / 70 to 20 / 200.

Crokinole is called knipsbrat (" flick-board ") in the Low German spoken by Mennonites.

Two paintings ( both dated 1565 ) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder depict Dutch peasants curling — Scotland and the Low Countries had strong trading and cultural links during this period, which is also evident in the history of golf.

* Low cost is of utmost importance.

Some have theorized it emerged from the overwhelming influence of Low German in medieval times, having flattened the originally Nordic melodic accent, but stød is absent in most southern Danish dialects where Low German impact would have been the greatest.

Often logic " 0 " will be a lower voltage and referred to as " Low " while logic " 1 " is referred to as " High ".

Low voltage reduces the specimen damage by the incident electrons and increases image contrast that is especially important for biological specimens.

Estonian has been influenced by Swedish, German ( initially Middle Low German, later also standard German ), and Russian, though it is not related to them genetically.

This is primarily because the Estonian language has borrowed nearly one third of its vocabulary from Germanic languages, mainly from Low Saxon ( Middle Low German ) during the period of German rule, and High German ( including standard German ).

The name Freyja is in fact a title meaning " lady ", from Proto-Germanic * frawjōn, cognate with West Frisian frou, Dutch vrouw, Low German Fro, Fru, German Frau.

Frankish * forhist is attested by Old High German forst " forest ", Middle Low German vorst " forest ", Old English fyrhþ " forest, woodland, game preserve, hunting ground " ( English frith ), and Old Norse fýri " coniferous forest ", all of which derive from Proto-Germanic * furhísa -, * furhíþija-" a fir-wood, coniferous forest ", from Proto-Indo-European * perk < sup > w </ sup > u-" a coniferous or mountain forest, wooded height ".

The word is continued in German Deutsch ( meaning German ), English " Dutch ", Dutch Duits and Diets ( the latter referring to the historic name for Dutch or Middle Dutch, the former meaning German ), Italian tedesco ( meaning German ), Swedish / Danish / Norwegian tysk ( meaning German ) and Middle Low German dudesch meaning both Low German and the whole of Dutch / German / Low German, as well its descendant, modern Low German dütsch, meaning only Standard High German.

Low grade institutional toilet paper is typically of the lowest grade of paper, has only one or two plies, is very coarse and sometimes contains small amounts of embedded unbleached / unpulped paper.

Rollo is also known in the documents as Radulf ( us ) ( Old Low Franconian ) ( or sometimes Rodulf ( us )) > French Raoul, that is the French translation of Hróðulfr > Hrólfr, according to the Low Franconian variant form Radulf of Germanic Rodulf / Rudolf .</ ref >

Low chroma resolution of DV ( compared to higher-end digital video formats ) is a reason this format is sometimes avoided in chroma keying applications, though advances in chroma keying techniques and software made producing quality keys from DV material possible.

Low investment has been a long term problem in Fiji and property rights are sometimes thought to be part of this problem because, by law, five sixths of the land is owned communally by indigenous Fijians and may only be leased, not purchased outright.

A gap between the inner and outer Van Allen belts, sometimes called safe zone or safe slot, is caused by the Very Low Frequency ( VLF ) waves which scatter particles in pitch angle which results in the gain of particles to the atmosphere.

Exactly how this is chosen depends on the tidal regime in the area being charted and on the policy of the hydrographic office producing the chart in question ; a typical definition is Lowest Astronomical Tide ( the lowest tide predictable from the effects of gravity ), or Mean Lower Low Water ( the average lowest tide of each day ), although MSL is sometimes used in waters with very low tidal ranges.

In other languages, this has not been adopted, though the larger area is sometimes known as the Low Countries in English.

Old Low Franconian is sometimes divided in two groups, Old Dutch ( also Old West Low Franconian ) and Old East Low Franconian.

It is common to consider the Limburgish varieties as belonging to the Low Franconian languages ; in the past, however, all these Limburgish dialects were sometimes seen as West Central German, part of High German.

The word stems from the French jalousie, formed from jaloux ( jealous ), and further from Low Latin zelosus ( full of zeal ), in turn from the Greek word ( zēlos ), sometimes " jealousy ", but more often in a positive sense " emulation, ardour, zeal "

In rural parts of the region they still sometimes use today a Low German dialect called Heidjerisch.

1. 6 gpf toilets are also sometimes referred as ULF ( Ultra Low Flow ) toilets.

Low grade sarcomas are usually treated surgically, although sometimes radiation therapy or chemotherapy are used.

The product describes the expected sky condition ( along with the chance of precipitation and precipitation type if liquid and / or frozen precipitation is forecast ), the temperature range for the county zone ( typically written out as for example: " Lows in the lower 50s ", though sometimes if temperatures in the county zone are forecast to be around a specific temperature it may be written as " Low around 55 ") and the forecast winds ; the wind forecast only appears within the first 72 hours of the seven-day period in the product.

Eckernförde (, sometimes also Egernfjord, Low German: Eckernför, sometimes also Eckernföör ) is a German city in Schleswig-Holstein, Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde at the Baltic Sea near Kiel.

During the second part of the 1820s, and in addition to English and Scottish scenes, Roberts painted views of prominent buildings in France and the Low Countries including Amiens, Caen, Dieppe, Rouen, Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent, sometimes making several paintings of the same scene with only minor variations.

Church politics sometimes employ a different spatial paradigm: Low Church contrasts with High Church.

Low deck rolling-stock can sometimes be used to carry taller shipping containers on lower gauge lines although their low-deck rolling-stock cannot then carry as many containers.

His songs sometimes explored social themes, such as domestic violence ( in " The Thunder Rolls ") and racial harmony (" We Shall Be Free )", while others – such as " Friends in Low Places " — were just good-time songs.