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Have you ever read Lachamon's Brut? He goes on for 16,000 lines about "the Britons", and King Arthur, and in the very last line all of...

I was referring to the emergence of the trope in D&D. As in, it wasn't drawing on historical or literary sources, but on actual...

Isn't the whole idea much simpler? Bars and taverns have traditionally been places where people gather for food, drink and company. My...

It says it travelled through space to arrive on Earth. Sure, it's only flavour, but isn't that the point? As ancient as Earth's history...

"The Tower of the Elephant". A sorcerer has captured the alien and uses its power to fuel his sorcery. There's actually a Tower of the...

Also: The Sword of Shannara (1977) is explicitly a fantasy world built on an ancient high-science world, with a high-tech monster even...

Guards! Guards! has a bit about wanting a king again instead of the Patrician, because of the old glory days. That idea gets pretty...

Does Conan the Barbarian/Conan the Destroyer/Red Sonja count?

These are not movies but I love this choice (and you) anyway.

Blackadder II, Blackadder the Third, Blackadder Goes Forth.

Can we please, collectively, stop acting like teenagers are the only people who could possibly be okay with, let alone like, official...

Ged, Gandalf, Raistlin and Dallben.

Same, O brother.

This looks good! The first Legends anthology that featured "The Hedge Knight" was published in 1998. Those years weigh heavily on my knees.

Same, this book feels so much like a good home game of D&D. Haven't finished it yet, but it might be one of my favorites this year...