![]() The only thing missing from what we consider staple fare for contemporary fantasy is hobbits and we all know where they came from.įor those who are a little more familiar with the story, they might mention a youngster who draws a magic sword from a stone during a time of chaos, which determined the King of all the Britons, receives Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake, who rose and united the land against invaders, formed a semi-democratic and multicultural council of knights, the Round Table. ![]() There is the theme of the end of the old ways and the rise of the new. ![]() There are wise rulers, antagonistic offspring, sibling rivalry, obsessions and madness, dangerous quests, romances both pure and destructive, and competitive love triangles. There are maidens in flowing dresses in extraordinary castles, brave knights in shining armour, old wizards with long beards, seductive witches, changelings, ghosts, giants, dwarves, elves, goblins, unicorns, dragons, magical swords, and otherworldly lands. ![]() Indeed, the Arthurian legends, in combining medieval history and ancient mythology, created those tropes. Most people when asked about the Arthurian legends will bring to mind well known tropes from idealised British fantasy. ![]()
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