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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9146868" data-attributes="member: 18">I feel kind of lucky because I have a friend who mentions Amber like almost ever time I see him (if we hang out more than an hour or two). It's a pity so many 1970s fantasy series, however massively influential they were at the time, seem to be being forgotten by the march of time. That said 1980s fantasy is, if anything, even more forgotten, albeit perhaps more of it justifiably (though some even less - c.f. Glen Wolfe's stuff).I think the only reason they are is the very dedicated efforts of the various licence-holders, and the fact that fans of the 1990s cartoon are now of the age where they're in charge of the media and can indulge their nostalgia.I mean the big issue is going to be copyright. Frankenstein might well not have "had legs" if copyright extended as long as it does now in the early and middle 20th century, and whilst Dracula itself didn't leave copyright until 1962, the original legends were there to lean on, just without the Stoker specifics.LotR will probably last a lot longer than most because it's foundational to the entire approach authors take to the fantasy genre, not merely influential. It's actually surprising how un-influential most specific elements from LotR are in fantasy writing, but the general approach of massive world-building together with an epic story told across multiple books? That's basically the vast majority of fantasy that gets published today, and profoundly different to the Sword and Sorcery approach.Harry Potter will probably largely be a generational thing, due to the author's decision to destroy her relationship with her audience (I would personally note that I believe this is essentially a personality issue with Rowling - she's often been extremely rude, sneering and adversarial in interviews all the way back to the 1990s, and if she hadn't found transphobia, I think she'd have found some other axe to grind that grated with her audience - being anti-animal-rights or something probably). It'll soon be that thing that grandma loves, and made you watch, and it was cool when you were a kid, but didn't influence you deeply (to the extent that it isn't already!).</blockquote>

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