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Features of Fantasy
1. The existence of the fictional
world.
2. In such a world there can be real
gods, sorcery, mythical creatures (dragons, elves, dwarves, trolls), ghosts and other fantastic beings.
3. The authors usually place the action in a fictional world with its own geography, its history, its races and peoples.
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
He was born in 1892
in Bloemfontein. John is well known as the author
of the classic works of "high fantasy“ like "the Hobbit, or There and back again", "Lord of the rings" and "Silmarillion".
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Designing languages
In childhood, John and his comrades came
up with several languages to communicate with each other.
This passion for the study of existing languages and the design of new stayed with him for life. Tolkien is the Creator of several artificial languages Quenya, or the language of the high elves; Sindarin language of the grey elves.
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the Lord of the rings
The Lord of The
Rings is an epic novel of the English writer
J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of The Rings was written as one book but due to it had too big volume, it was split into three parts: "the fellowship of the Ring" "the Two towers" and "return of the king". As a trilogy it is published and to this day, although often in a single volume.
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"The Lord of the Rings" by John Tolkien
tells the story of the great war of the
Ring war, which lasted for thousands of years. Mastered the Ring will have power over all the living and the dead, but he must serve the Evil! The young hobbit Frodo has to destroy the Ring. He goes through Mordor to the Mountain of fire the Fate, where the ring was cast. So it can be destroyed just in the hellish Inferno. Sauron confrorts Frodo and his friends including elves, dwarves and humans, wants to get back his precious Ring to gain power over the world.
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Interesting Facts
1.In 2003 Lord of the Rings took
the first place in the list of "200 best
books according to the BBC". And later it was translated into at least 38 languages. This book has a huge impact on literature in the genre of fantasy, computer games, in cinema and in general on world culture
2.In the novel of Stephen king's "Insomnia" the main character Ralph Roberts very often recalls the trilogy "the Lord of the rings", and its storyline is also built around the ring (wedding ring insane person).
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Joanne Rowling
J. Rowling is known under pen names
J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith , she is
a British writer, screenwriter and film producer, best known as the author of series of novels about Harry Potter.
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A history of a name
Although the books were
published under the pseudonym "J. K. Rowling" when the
first book was published about Harry Potter, her name was simply "Joanne Rowling". Joanne was afraid the target audience of boys may not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers asked her to use two initials, not a full name. She had no middle name, so she chose the second name Katlin from her grandmother.
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Harry Potter
The action takes place in our world
in England in 1990-ies. Unlike the real world, among
ordinary people there are lots of wizards, the main ability is to use magic wands. Ordinary people, who are Muggles, do not know about them. There are much less Wizards than Muggles, for example in England there are about 3 thousand wizards. However, the wizards have their own government (Ministry of Magic), school (Hogwarts), Newspapers, radio, money, banks, etc. There are some games. They are sports game Quidditch, spit-stones, wizard's chess and others.
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"Harry Potter" is a series of seven novels
in the fantasy genre. The book is a chronicle
of the adventures of the young wizard Harry Potter and his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, enrolled in the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Hogwarts. The main theme is the confrontation between Harry and the dark wizard Lord Volan de mort, whose goal is the acquisition of immortality and the enslavement of the Wizarding world.
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Interesting facts
JK Rowling, Harry Potter and actor Daniel
Radcliffe were born on the same day on July
31st.
The war in the Wizarding world was at about the same time as in the Muggle world. There was the Second world war. In 1945, when Hitler fell, Dumbledore finally broke the evil wizard Grindelwald.
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Conclusion
Nowadays the fantasy genre is one of the
most popular, especially among young people. It teaches them
to solve problems in real life and even motivate them to read new books.
Also such books are able to develop teenagers’ mind and fantasy. Sometimes they can completely change people’s lives.