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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Laurefindel" data-source="post: 9391496" data-attributes="member: 67296">It's medieval-fantasy, and it's as accurate to the historical middle-ages as steampunk is to Victorian-era England and colonies. It's overly romanticized, it removes 95% of the bad stuff that did happen back then, and it's anachronistic as naughty word; but it does refer to a period that immediately brings strong imagery and iconography to mind, at least a different imagery from that of the age of sails, Victorian era, far west era, American or French revolution era, ancient Greece and Rome, and that's only referring to western civilizations. We're painting in broad strokes here.Indeed there is more to feudalism than just monarchy, but it does evoke vassalship, knighthood as service to a lord, and peasantry as serfs not owning the land they till and work. In that respect it's close enough to apply to a fantasy setting.As for Tolkien, the middle-ages are a broad category between antiquity and the modern era (which starts with the renaissance*), so old-Saxon era fits in there even if it's pre-Carolingian (not by much though).* which is where I agree that "medieval" is misleading when talking about D&D; it contains way too many modern elements borrowing from the renaissance to really belong in the middle-ages.</blockquote>