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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8088073" data-attributes="member: 22779">You're seriously comparing a single, American city, with a history that's measured in decades, to the epic scale of something like Middle Earth which has a history measured in millenia?  Seriously?Because you aren't even trying to understand.  The fact that I had to list out all those elements means that you actually don't know what you're talking about and are making zero effort to be informed before jumping in to criticize.Sigh.  Epic Fantasy is a Fantasy form, number one, which doesn't exist in literature prior to the 19th century.  It's also referring to the NOVEL form, which, also, doesn't really exist before the 18th century.  Good grief, this is basic Lit Crit from high school.I suggest you look at <a href="https://www.heroicfantasyquarterly.com/" target="_blank">Heroic Fantasy Quarterly - Prose.  Poetry.  Pulp.</a> or <a href="https://www.blackgate.com/" target="_blank">Black Gate</a> before you begin writing off S&S as a genre.  Or, look up Glen Cook's Black Company novels for another current example.  IOW, THIS is why you are getting raked over the coals.  You are making zero effort to actually understand what's being explained to you and you are now forcing the rest of us to regurgitate crap that you should have learned in high school English classes.  This is just freaking ridiculous.</blockquote>