Plant Monsters in Heroic Fantasy Fiction
Heroic Fantasy offers sword-swingers all kinds of monsters to fight: dragons, harpies, ape creatures, just about anything you can imagine. The Sword & Sorcery hero Read More
Tag: The Fellowship of the Ring
Epic Fantasy Novel Adaptations of the 21st Century
If you missed the last one… Readers of the 21st century have it pretty good. A big Epic Fantasy series appears in print, with many, Read More
Link: Fantasy, Oh Fantasy, Where Art Thou Gone?
The 1960s saw an explosion in heroic fantasy fiction with Ballantine’s The Lord of the Rings and the Lancer Conan paperbacks. Suddenly barbarians and hobbit-like Read More
Swords vs. Tentacles
The 1970s saw an explosion in Sword & Sorcery comics and with it a trope that has become almost a cliche: the tentacled monster. The Read More
Portraits of Gollum
If you are like just about every person on the planet you have this great sculpture in your office or den. We all got them Read More