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Originally Posted by magician2magici  i know tolkien was an inspiring one of high fantasy, one of its poineer like Malloriel said, but did he invented world-buidling we nowadays know ? |
Not at all. Just as one example, E. R. Eddison's
The Worm Ouroboros was written in 1922.
Tolkien's worldbuilding was more complex and consistent, but I can't think of anyone since who has achieved that level. It's usually about the level of Eddison and other pre-Tolkien writers.
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in my epic i use both parallel world plus seperate fantasy world in the same set with - ofcourse - the presence of our globe - parallel world to our real world and the parallel is interconnected with entire sepertae world with all meaning of fantasy world si that the three worlds seems to be like one whole world -
i'm asking had anyone written with this complex way before ? and if so what is the name of it ?
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It's been done lots of time, actually. I don't believe there is a specific name for it.
But to return to the subject of High Fantasy:
High Fantasy need not, in fact, include extensive worldbuilding, although most of the time it does. It deals with the same sort of themes as ancient epics and sagas, and therefore lends itself to a Medieval or Dark Ages type setting. What distinguishes it from Sword and Sorcery, a sub-genre that shares the same sort of setting and often many of the same conventions (you haven't asked about S&S, but I think it should probably be part of this discussion), is that the heroes and heroines of High Fantasy are usually in pursuit of some larger goal, whereas in Sword and Sorcery the goal is usually more personal -- survival, advancement, the recovery of something belonging to oneself -- and though kingdoms may rise and fall in the process that's coincidental. Sword and Sorcery also lends itself to short fiction, or to novels that feature a series of episodic adventures. High Fantasy is usually one long, continuous narrative filling one or more volumes. The protagonists of Sword and Sorcery may also be more roguish than heroic.
Some people distinguish Epic Fantasy from either of these and may throw in Heroic Fantasy for good measure, but the lines are often blurred, because a story can have elements of any or all of these.