Another Intro
Hey everyone, I'm Joel.
I am a Senior in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering (I make swords, axes, superalloys, and nano-computers haha.) I like fantasy, but I haven't been much of a reader since I got to college (err...engineering does that to you.) I have of course read some of the basics, like The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, the Silmarillion (my personal favorite), and Wicked (if that counts,) and I am a fan of Spritied Away as well as the slightly-darker Princess Mononoke.
I think that a fantasy tale is defined by two special aspects:
1. An un-natural world with unexplainable magic that often involves swords, and that defies our current knowledge of science in a steady manner.
2. An overlying sense of a Greater Evil and a Lesser Good. Evil in these stories is usually all powerful and very identifeable, and good is shown as somewhat of an underdog and an unknown (at least at first.)
I am a Senior in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering (I make swords, axes, superalloys, and nano-computers haha.) I like fantasy, but I haven't been much of a reader since I got to college (err...engineering does that to you.) I have of course read some of the basics, like The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, the Silmarillion (my personal favorite), and Wicked (if that counts,) and I am a fan of Spritied Away as well as the slightly-darker Princess Mononoke.
I think that a fantasy tale is defined by two special aspects:
1. An un-natural world with unexplainable magic that often involves swords, and that defies our current knowledge of science in a steady manner.
2. An overlying sense of a Greater Evil and a Lesser Good. Evil in these stories is usually all powerful and very identifeable, and good is shown as somewhat of an underdog and an unknown (at least at first.)
posted by Joel at 6:55 PM
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