Knowra Fantasy Fantasy Fantasy is imaginative thought or fiction centered on events and worlds that depart from ordinary reality, often through magic, supernatural forces, or invented worlds.
Magic : A supernatural force or practice that appears to alter events beyond ordinary physical laws. Magic often supplies the rules and powers that make fantasy worlds unlike ordinary reality.
The Lord of the Rings : J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy novel about a struggle to destroy a powerful ring. Its invented history, languages, and geography helped establish a model for secondary-world fantasy.
Science fiction : Fiction that explores imagined worlds or events through scientific ideas, technologies, or speculative change. Science fiction commonly motivates departures from reality through extrapolated science rather than magic.
Epic poetry : Long narrative poetry recounting the deeds of heroes and events of historical or cosmic importance. Ancient epics supplied heroic quests, supernatural beings, and large-scale conflicts later used in fantasy.
Fantasy literature : Literary fiction in which supernatural, magical, or otherwise impossible events shape the story. This is fantasy’s principal form as written narrative.
Worldbuilding : The creation of a setting’s history, geography, cultures, institutions, and rules. Fantasy relies on invented settings whose internal rules make extraordinary events coherent.
The Chronicles of Narnia : C. S. Lewis’s series of children’s fantasy novels set largely in the magical land of Narnia. Its portal into another world shows one route from ordinary life into fantasy.
Realism : An artistic approach that represents life and events in ways consistent with ordinary experience. Realism generally avoids the impossible events and invented rules characteristic of fantasy.
Medieval romance : A medieval narrative genre featuring knights, quests, marvels, and often courtly love. Its quests and marvelous adventures became durable sources for fantasy plots and settings.
Fantasy film : Film that depicts magical, supernatural, or otherwise impossible events and worlds. Cinema gives fantasy’s imagined creatures and settings visual form.
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