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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 9785559" data-attributes="member: 6906155">The point is, you are refusing to accept that modern fantasy is based on anything but European Romance. When it has a great many influences KP DH is as modern a fantasy as you can get, and likely to have a huge influence down the line, and there is no way it can have any connection to European Medieval Romance whatsoever. And that's just an example of other influences coming in all through the history of literature. E. Nesbit was influenced by the Thousand and One Nights, which where part of her pop culture at the time of writing. And she probably influenced C.S. Lewis, and maybe Tolkien (compare prose style in The Hobbit). D&D has been a huge influence on modern fantasy, and that drew eclectically on a great many things in addition to European Medieval Romance.Meanwhile, Medievil Romance was pretty much the invention of the novel as a form of entertainment, so influences a great many genres - all that Lancelot Guinevere stuff is a soap opera, is it not? Everyone has lots of great grandparents, and they have a great many descendants. Go back far enough and you find everyone is related to everyone else. The concept of a "direct line" is itself an element of Medievil Romance that is a load of stuff and nonsense. Lines are twisty, and have lots of branches in and out. Just look at Henry VII!</blockquote>