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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8087159" data-attributes="member: 22779">Three stories out of how many?&nbsp; I did say rarely, and, most of the fighting by the armies occurs off stage.&nbsp; True, The Scarlett Citadel does feature a big battle, but, that's at the end of the story - most of the story is Conan in a dungeon.&nbsp; And, Hour of the Dragon follows largely the same plot line.&nbsp; To be fair, the novel length Hour of the Dragon has more room for the bigger stuff, but, again, we don't have a shopping list of characters that we have in Epic Fantasy.&nbsp; [USER=6801228]@Chaosmancer[/USER] poo poos the number of characters in The Hobbit - but, good grief, there's a TON of characters there.&nbsp; Let's not forget here, that The Hobbit is meant for a pretty young reader.&nbsp; It was the thought of the day that you couldn't have a book that was too complex for young readers.Now the Lord of the Rings?&nbsp; Good grief, not only do we have the Fellowship, we've got the Elves, The Rohan, all the schmucks in Gondor, wizards (plural), non-humanoids like the Ents, and all the background history for many of these characters.&nbsp; That's what makes it Epic fantasy.&nbsp; There's a reason LotR comes with Appendixes.&nbsp; Complete family trees.&nbsp; Proud FEET!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />The primary difference between epic fantasy and S&amp;S is scale.&nbsp; S&amp;S just doesn't really concern itself (generally) with massive numbers of characters and history.&nbsp; It's a much small, narrower focus.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 8087159, member: 22779"] Three stories out of how many? I did say rarely, and, most of the fighting by the armies occurs off stage. True, The Scarlett Citadel does feature a big battle, but, that's at the end of the story - most of the story is Conan in a dungeon. And, Hour of the Dragon follows largely the same plot line. To be fair, the novel length Hour of the Dragon has more room for the bigger stuff, but, again, we don't have a shopping list of characters that we have in Epic Fantasy. [USER=6801228]@Chaosmancer[/USER] poo poos the number of characters in The Hobbit - but, good grief, there's a TON of characters there. Let's not forget here, that The Hobbit is meant for a pretty young reader. It was the thought of the day that you couldn't have a book that was too complex for young readers. Now the Lord of the Rings? Good grief, not only do we have the Fellowship, we've got the Elves, The Rohan, all the schmucks in Gondor, wizards (plural), non-humanoids like the Ents, and all the background history for many of these characters. That's what makes it Epic fantasy. There's a reason LotR comes with Appendixes. Complete family trees. Proud FEET! :D The primary difference between epic fantasy and S&S is scale. S&S just doesn't really concern itself (generally) with massive numbers of characters and history. It's a much small, narrower focus. [/QUOTE]

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