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Spaceship
Why is there a spaceship picture on the template? That is surely more sci-fi than fantasy.
Alan16 (
talk) 02:42, 12 August 2009 (UTC)reply
Dragon
Why does the template have a random drawing of a anthropomorphic dragon? It's not even very good.--
May Cause Dizziness (
talk) 00:57, 24 July 2010 (UTC)reply
I'm removing it. If you have a problem with that, comment here.--
May Cause Dizziness (
talk) 03:03, 4 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Revamp
Im about to revamp this template, as i did with
Template:Science fiction. similar sections, some overlap of contents. Its not my template, of course, so criticism or redaction will be welcome. main point is to remove from this template categories, stubs, or otherwise much less notable articles, in favor of the major fantasy articles we have. a link to tolkien fandom without a direct link to tolkien is not correct. He is much more important than his fans,obviously, as are his books. the template can, and i think should, link directly to major authors and works, and not just lists or articles on the culture of fantasy fans. i just have to do some resorting, and ill post it here (and rename it). I will list all the articles i did NOT include, which may help if people feel i left something out that warrants inclusion. (the work is based on my own knowledge (somewhat biased of course) and the strength of the arguments of the articles for how important their subject is to the fantasy field.
Mercurywoodrose (
talk) 20:30, 15 November 2011 (UTC)reply
Excluded articles
garcia marquez (magic realism not fantasy)
calvino
kubla khan
alfred lord tennyson
Fantastic
The Last Unicorn
Mythago Wood
Little, Big
eta hoffman
Kipling
Charles williams
thomas malory
shelley
john milton paradise lost
keats
Robert Graves/Seven Days in New Crete
william blake
The World's Desire
H. Rider Haggard
wicca
The Haunting of Hill House
List of fairy tales
conventions
werewolf
Count Dracula
vampire
jason golden fleece (in as argonautica)
golem
dark fantasy?
Dystopia
List of dystopian literature
hans christian andersen
Amadis de Gaula
erewhon
gene wolfe (series is in)
Mervyn Peake
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant books
The Faerie Queene?
pinocchio
Tokusatsu
arthur
King Kong
Outline of Middle-earth
paranormal (related)
a wrinkle in time
clive barker?
Reception of J. R. R. Tolkien
Fantasy world
Richard Adams
Middle-Earth
List of Middle-earth writings
Fantasy comics
comics
roald dahl
Ursula K. Le Guin
Prydain
Dante Alighieri
trilogy by him
Darkover/bradley
Tove Jansson
Moomin
Brothers Hildebrandt
Alan Lee (illustrator)
Ian Miller (illustrator)
Michael Hague
ovid/meta
hesiod
mythology, sp norse, greek
virgil
Bangsian fantasy
Role-playing game
hal foster and his comic strip
william morris
Guillermo del Toro
Tarzan
arthur conan doyle
dandelion wine
Filk music
Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar
List of fantasy anime
Magical girl
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (manga)
The Moon Pool
Fantasy comics
Argosy
Fantasy television
Category:Fantasy book publishers
List of Arthurian characters
World Fantasy Convention
List of fictional animals
List of religious ideas in fantasy fiction
Science fiction studies
Invisibility in fiction
Fantasy tropes and conventions
List of fantasy worlds
Fantasy author
Enchanted forest
Once upon a time
mary stewart
Urban fantasy
Stephen donaldson?
Mythic fiction
Picture of the One Ring
I don't think this is an appropriate picture for this template. Firstly, I think the fantasy genre is far wider than Lord of the Rings and it is not right to use a particular image symbolising one particular book.
Secondly, I am doubtful about the copyright status of this image - it has
Tengwar script that Tolkien created and it hasn't entered the public domain yet. The artist of this image likely also used a font, which may also have additional copyright restrictions.--
Anon 22:54, 30 December 2011 (UTC)reply
no question the fantasy genre is larger than tolkien, as you can see by the articles linked to in the template. IF we want an image on this template, this is pretty good, though i did consider images by rackham, and things like fairies, etc. Good questions about the copyright status, maybe take that up at the images page at wikimedia commons. (I may do so myself)
Mercurywoodrose (
talk) 03:17, 12 January 2012 (UTC)reply
This alternate version of the image
[1] brings up the copyright issue of the font, and admits that while probably allowable for free use [
[2]], questions remain about invented scripts.
Mercurywoodrose (
talk) 03:20, 12 January 2012 (UTC)reply
The rings picture does not, and cannot symbolise the entire fantasy genre. It should be removed.--
Siddhartha Ghai (
talk) 23:47, 27 January 2012 (UTC)reply
These are hardly works which could be considered fantasy per se. Otherwise you might as well include
Grimms' Fairy Tales or
Táin Bó Cúailnge. Yes, they have provided inspiration for modern fantasy writers, but I would suggest them to be better described as myths, legends, (traditional) folk/fairy tales, heroic epics etc.
Isn't this more like Horror? Plus, it's a fad. In 10 years, if people are still reading it, then it can be included. As of today, it hasn't shown staying power like the others on the list. — Preceding
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159.53.78.140 (
talk) 20:25, 28 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Magus
I removed The Magus, which is not generally considered fantasy literature.
Goustien (
talk) 00:40, 10 July 2012 (UTC)reply
Major Works?
Subjective! Remove it. Also it's very Anlgo-centric. Where are Latin magic realist works? Where are the Japanese fantasys. List could be better, but removing it is better still--
Kevlar (
talk •
contribs) 18:39, 1 October 2012 (UTC)reply
I have given up on this template (as i did with SF), but i want to point out that we are including some publishers and not others, some publications and not others, and the list of genres and subjects is incomplete and biased. Any effort to create an effective navigation box for Fantasy fiction will be subjective. PS, this is the English Wikipedia, thus it has an inevitable Anglo bias. i did include some classics from antiquity. But, as i said, i will no longer edit these templates.
Mercurywoodrose (
talk) 03:51, 2 October 2012 (UTC)reply