High Fantasy

After reading Aye, And Gomorrah I was honestly so confused. The way high fantasy is being written at this time is very confusing. It’s basically like getting a new video game and their being no manual on how to play. The game company expects people to know how to play games and be able to adapt to them easily. The reason it was hard for me is because I’m not as interested in high fantasy writing. So the author just throwing us into this story and expecting us to understand the world that he has created. Being a short story, he builds the world around a conversation two people are having about the stereotypes this world has. I think the biggest problem I have with this genre is the world building the writers have to do to make it understandable and enjoyable. Most people want everything explained, because if it isn’t well written or all explained it takes away from the experience of immersing yourself in a totally different world. That’s why I think the short stories written for fantasy are confusing, because we don’t know all the variables that make this world. I think Lord of the Rings is a good example of Fantasy, even though it isn’t in space we are pushed to try and understand the universe that Tolkien created. He created different groups of races and as well created a whole language for his world. In the name of world building Tolkien is the king of it.

It seems most of these books are around the idea of someone leaving their home world and having friction, because they have to interact with others that usually aren’t like them. I think that this is a way to have two completely different worlds collide. Making the story building even more intense then just having one world representing the story. After reading a couple short stories I think that high fantasy is only for a certain group of people, because of the intense reading it has.