This is just a freestyle thought, but I think it may be in part to where the fantasy elements are drawn. For example, things like elves and hobbits are humanoids, portraying mainly humanoid traits – just exaggerated like living a thousand years or having short height with massive feet. Or things that are purely imagination like dragons. Narnia, on the other hand, seems to make real life things betray what we know about them; like a talking lion. We have lions in reality and they don’t talk. We don’t have hobbits and dragons and elves in reality so we don;t have hard, preconceived notions about how these species should behave like we do with lions which makes us tend toward “realistic but alternate reality” vs “fantasy”. This is just a rudimentary thought though.
> literature chat
> is a video
I personally like video essays about literature
I personally like literature about video essays about literature.
I’m very fond of comments in discussion forums reviewing this kind of literature.
Well it’s about books. I’d be happy to crosspost to a better place if I missed it :)
Narnia doesn’t feel real to me in the same way LOTR does because our world is involved in it. All isekais are like that to me
They are both well written, and when I’m in the middle of either book I’m completely absorbed in its world. In that moment, I’m not thinking about realism at all.
It’s only when I put the book down that questions like that come up.
Interesting? Less than six minutes long? No ads? I’m astonished!
