A film genre tangentially related to sword and sorcery, at least in name, is sword-and-sandal, though its subjects are generally oriented to biblical times and history instead of fantasy.

While the first Star Ocean game included more fantasy elements to appeal to a broad audience, subsequent installments naturally moved towards a more sci-fi oriented feel, with Star Ocean: Till the End of Time described by its producer Yoshinori Yamagishi as tri-Ace's " ultimate vision " of the " whole Star Ocean world ".

*** BESM Dungeon ( 2003 )-Additions to BESM for running more fantasy oriented anime-inspired games.

After bagging the title as the first " Grand Teen Questor " of ABS-CBN's Star Circle Quest, Hero appeared in several TV shows in the network like the youth oriented program SCQ Reload and was also one of the casts of the fantasy series Krystala, led by Judy Ann Santos.

The lyrics up to this point ( most of them written by Peart ) were heavily influenced by classical poetry, fantasy literature, science fiction, and the writings of novelist Ayn Rand, as exhibited most prominently by their 1975 song " Anthem " from Fly By Night and a specifically acknowledged derivation in 2112 ( 1976 ).

In the tradition of progressive rock, Rush wrote protracted songs with irregular and multiple time signatures combined with fantasy / science fiction-inspired lyrics ; however, they did not soften their sound.

During the band's early years, Peart's lyrics were largely fantasy / science fiction-focused, though since 1980 he has focused more on social, emotional, and humanitarian issues.

" Inspired by such writers and artists as Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Edgar Rice Burroughs, J. R. R Tolkien and Jack Kirby, Byron set out to create his own dark fantasy universe, with tales told through epic lyrics and music.

Having gained the world-wide recognition, the band quit the fantasy world in lyrics and made an obvious stab at versatility by adding funk (" Dreamer ") and acoustic folk (" Circus ") elements to the palette.

Unlike pop music's escapist lyrics, arguably a fantasy distraction from the problems in life, folk artists attempted to communicate concerns for peace, global awareness, and other touchstones of the era.

One of Foster's best-known fantasy works is the Spellsinger series, in which a young musician is summoned into a world populated by talking creatures where his music allows him to do real magic whose effects depends on the lyrics of the popular songs he sings ( although with somewhat unpredictable results ).

The band's lyrics, written by vocalist Hansi Kürsch, are inspired by the fiction of fantasy authors such as Stephen King, J. R. R. Tolkien, Michael Moorcock, Robert Jordan and George R. R. Martin as well as traditional legends and epics.

While Ozzy Osbourne was the frontman of the band, Butler wrote almost all of the band's lyrics, drawing heavily upon his fascination with religion, science-fiction, fantasy and horror, and musings on the darker side of human nature that posed a constant threat of global annihilation.

" Night of the Living Dead " is titled after the 1969 horror film of the same name, and the song's lyrics address the zombie plot of the film: " You think you're a zombie, you think it's a scene / from some monster magazine / Open your eyes too late / This ain't no fantasy boy ".

Instrumentals were common, while songs with lyrics were sometimes conceptual, abstract, or based in fantasy.

True as Steel is a more commercial album, where any reference to fantasy and the occult in the lyrics was abandoned.

Instrumentals were common, while songs with lyrics were sometimes conceptual, abstract, or based in fantasy and science fiction.

Instrumentals were common, while songs with lyrics were sometimes conceptual, abstract, or based in fantasy.

Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles often incorporated elements of fantasy and science fiction, and are generally associated with masculinity and machismo.

Prince's vision was that the three women would perform in lingerie and sing sensual songs with lyrics about sex and fantasy.

Virgin Steele play what they call " barbaric romanticism " which is a symphonic, romantic and bombastic music with many elements taken from classical music and fantasy / mythological lyrics based on real life events.

Many of Battlelore's lyrics concern J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth sagas and their stage costumes and live shows are largely inspired by the themes and characters of fantasy literature.

His lyrics have evolved from abstract themes such as astrology and fantasy, to more personal endeavours such as depression and inner struggles.

The 5, 000 Fingers of Dr. T. ( 1953 ) is a musical fantasy film, the only feature film ever written by Theodor Seuss Geisel ( Dr. Seuss ), who was responsible for the story, screenplay and lyrics.

The word is sometimes used rather ambiguously in rock writing, referring to such things as bombast, Teutonic style or fantasy lyrics.

He has noted that lyrics have the ability to create a fantasy world and to convey ideas through that world.

Vis-à-vis the amount of religious references being Shinto ( animist presentation of nature as a living power, lyrics about kami, kagami or mikoto ), Buddhism ( mandala, music, " zen " blue shaded photography, animal headed anthropomorph beings ), the Bible ( Noah's Ark, Great Flood, Genesis ) or the Greek mythology ( Centaur, Chimera ), and connecting them with the depiction of fantasy ancient or future-races that are the mysterious creatures, this work could also be regarded as a mythological tale of Creation ( or Genesis ), in the likes of Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey.

Their lyrics are typically themed in the areas of fantasy and the supernatural.

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

In 1904, he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fantasy Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, an early harbinger of the metaphysical turn his career would take with the theory of Lawsonomy.

Howard Taubman in his New York Times review wrote that Laurents ' " book lacks the fantasy that would make the idea work, and his staging has not improved matters.

Alan Garner wrote a children's fantasy novel called The Weirdstone of Brisingamen about an enchanted teardrop bracelet.

Charles N. Brown, the publisher of Locus, which primarily addresses the science-fiction publishing world, wrote in the July 2006 issue: " Two Charles McCarry hardcover reprints from Overlook ... aren't really SF or fantasy, but they are two of the best spy thrillers ever written and form a secret or alternate history of the 20th century.

In their leisure time the children created a number of fantasy worlds, which were featured in stories they wrote and enacted about the imaginary adventures of their toy soldiers along with the Duke of Wellington and his sons, Charles and Arthur Wellesley.

" The names and playing records of major-league baseball players as used in CBC's fantasy games are not copyrightable ," Medler wrote.

He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works ( 55 novels in total, plus four " lost " novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings ), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.

Although Heinlein had previously written a few short stories in the fantasy genre, during this period he wrote his first fantasy novel, Glory Road, and in Stranger in a Strange Land and I Will Fear No Evil, he began to mix hard science with fantasy, mysticism, and satire of organized religion.

* 1998-2001: Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris wrote a fantasy fiction series ( The Temple and the Stone and The Temple and the Crown ) linking Robert the Bruce with the Knights Templar.

These novels — including The Wood Beyond the World and The Well at the World's End — have been credited as important milestones in the history of fantasy fiction, because, while other writers wrote of foreign lands, or of dream worlds, or the future ( as Morris did in News from Nowhere ), Morris's works were the first to be set in an entirely invented fantasy world.

Authors who write both fiction and non-fiction, or in different genres, may use different pen names to avoid confusing their readers, as in the case of mathematician Charles Dodgson, who wrote fantasy novels under the pen name Lewis Carroll and mathematical treatises under his own name.

In 1989, the film's screenwriter Anthony Shaffer wrote a script treatment for The Loathsome Lambton Worm, a direct sequel with fantasy elements.

Tolkien wrote in his essay " On Fairy Stories " that the terms " fantasy " and " enchantment " are connected to not only "... the satisfaction of certain primordial human desires ..." but also "... the origin of language and of the mind.

In a writing career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and notable works of non-fiction, including biographies of other important fantasy authors.

The author also wrote pioneering biographies of many key fantasy writers, most as short articles, but two as full-length studies of the prominent authors Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft, the first major independent biographies of both writers.

Similarly, an author who writes both fiction and non-fiction ( such as the mathematician and fantasy writer Charles Dodgson, who wrote as Lewis Carroll ) may use a pseudonym for fiction writing.

" Emily Griesinger wrote that fantasy literature helps children to survive reality for long enough to learn how to deal with it, described Harry's first passage through to Platform 9¾ as an application of faith and hope, and his encounter with the Sorting Hat as the first of many in which Harry is shaped by the choices he makes.

The Canadian historian Holger Herwig wrote that the Z Plan was Raeder's fantasy given that the Z Plan fleet would take 8 million tons of oil whereas in 1939 Germany imported a total of only six million tons of oil.

Ruskin wrote the fantasy novel The King of the Golden River for her in 1841, when she was twelve years old.

" Paul Mandell, of American Cinematographer magazine, wrote: " Distance was the most personal story Serling ever wrote, and easily the most sensitive dramatic fantasy in the history of television.