epic fantasy n.

In the Epic Fantasy group the author more or less asks you to accept the background and so on as important because his characters consider it important, then take the story from there, repecting the laws and logic which are to be taken for what they are, and taken seriously.

It is my theory that the so-called epic fantasy, or imaginary world fiction, basically employs either one of two basic plot-themes, or a combination of the two.

The pre-screening hype stated that they had faithfully followed J.R.R. Tolkien’s [sic] epic fantasy and had consulted with a committee of so-called Tolkein ‘experts’ to insure that the finished product we had beamed into our homes would be authentic.

Epic fantasy, fantasy that shares characteristics common to the epic, such as elevated style, grandly heroic figures, vast settings, and supernatural intervention—all involved in a struggle in which some central cultural value or values are at stake. Publishers have come to use the term somewhat more loosely to describe almost any multivolume fantasy work.

And although he experimented in poetry, as well as a variety of pulp formulas and series characters, Howard will always be remembered as the father of Conan, and, thereby, one of the founders of the sub-genre that would be called, variously, epic fantasy, heroic fantasy, and sword and sorcery.

Follow the fascinating evolution of the bestselling epic fantasy series The Belgariad and The Malloreon—including their companion volumes Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress—in this behind-the-scenes companion to the making of a classic saga.

I've been wondering lately when it was that the epic fantasy novel came to be pretty much solely equated with war.

Then there’s Clive Barker, bringing a dramatist’s flair first to the utterly visceral horror of Books of Blood, then to a spectrum of the dark fantastic ranging from young adult fiction to massive epic fantasy.