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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Keefe the Thief" data-source="post: 4786590" data-attributes="member: 49552">So, fantasy is all myth derived from Greek and Roman religion and history, and similar backgrounds where gods behave like men? A lot of modern fantasy is filled with that? What books have you been reading? What modern fantasy is like that? Examples?I hope you don´t take that as personal, but real fantasy is based on bad prose? "... inescapable omen that flits about in uneasy dreams like a carrion crow..."?</blockquote>No, glowing swords and cartoonish heroes are not the best modern fantasy can offer. However, it is also often not chained to tradition, and better for it. Sorry, but this is a Nestorian speech. When they asked him in the Illiad about his opinion, Nestor would give it only after telling them how the assembled heroes were not equal to the heroes he fought with back then, how everything had deteriorated with time and nothing new came close to that what was created in the past.[/QUOTE]