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Originally Posted by Manarion  So you say, but eventually with such mixing, fantasy will lose its basic face. Already, it's not even considered its own genre anymore; rather, it's considered a SUB-genre of SF. The only reason why the two are ever closely linked is the fact that things that have never happened in any situation in this world is a staple of both genres. Other than that, I really don't find any similiarity. |
No... what I'm referring to is that they are linked historically... they come from the same basic roots literarily, which began to diverge in the late 18th century, had a great deal of intermingling of various sorts throughout the 19th and early 20th, and became rather stultified into (as you call it) its "basic face" following the surge in popularity for Tolkien's work ca. the 1970s. Before that point, the similarities were much more evident if you had much of a knowledge of the field.
And, as Teresa noted, there
is no one classic type, no "basic face", as you put it. What you're referring to is one very limited facet of fantasy, by no means the whole....