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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glade Riven" data-source="post: 5606912" data-attributes="member: 86468">Plus there is always a certain amount of bull in the fine arts - I know, I have a degree in it. As any literary major knows, meaning is use. Use can change meaning, except in a certifiably dead language such as Latin (which was killed, with the candel stick, in the billiard room; possibly by a pope). Part of being a good writer is not only proper word usage, but having the ability to define word usage. Tolkien and CS Lewis, through the popularity of their works, have defined to the layman what High Fantasy is. Furthermore, every author that wants to be Tolkien and write the Epically Epic novel series has reinforced the concept of what High Fantasy is. To a biologist an organism may be a Musca domestica; to the average person it is just a house fly.</blockquote>