1. Genre Study
Fantasy

2. Order of events
• Examples
• Facts
• Charakters
• Plot
• Conflict
• Style
• Atmosphere
• Tipps for the future

3. Examples I
Book1: A song of ice and fire-A game
of thrones:
In many views told story of an
incapable king, who is murdered and
of all the intrigues around the
throne, while in the north strange
things awake in the ice behind the
defens-wall and in the east the queen
of dragons rises.

4. Examples II
Book2: The lord of the rings-The fellowship of the
ring
Frodo, a Hobbit, get a mysterious ring, which
turns out to be the one ring of the dark lord
Sauron. He begins a journey together with his
fellowship Aragorn the man, Boromir the
man, Legolas the elf, Gimli the draw, Gandalf the
wizard, Sam, Merry and Pipin the Hobbits. They
see many incredible places like Moria, Lorien and
Rivendell.

5. Examples III
Movie: The lord of the rings-The return of the king:
Sam and Frodo arrive in Mordor while
Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli etc. are making the final fight
in front of Minas Thirit. After they won with help of the army
of the death, which followed Aragorn, because of an old
oath, they march to the black gate, for luring the bad armies
out and give Frodo the chance to destroy the ring. It comes to
the “Show down”…

6. Facts
In Fantasy exists:
• A clear separation between good and evil
• Fights
• War
• Heroes
• Different cultures, Creatures, landscapes
• Magic
• A world of adventures

7. Characters I
• A wise, old man
• A brave hero
• A “bad guy” without feelings

8. Characters II
• A anti-hero, who becomes a big hero (main
character)
• The right hand of the bad guy, with incredible
powers and skills

9. Characters III
• A girl that have not much more character than
being attractive

10. Plot I
• The good one wins in the moment everything
seems hopeless.
• The good one gets the girl.

11. Plot II
• All bad ones die.
• The good ones “live happily
ever after

12. Conflict
• The bad one wants to
take over the world/do
something evil
• The good one have to
stop him

13. Style
• Third person
• One view
• “highlight” at the end

14. Atmosphere
• Hopeless
• Heroic
• Epic
• Action

15. Tipps for the Future I
• Fantasy is the modern form of fairy tales.
• So where are the differences?
• So, No advance than more characters and more
fight!
fantasy Fairy tailes
There is a hero = There is a hero
There is a „bad guy“ = There is a „bad guy“
The good one makes an
adventure to defeat the
bad one and get the girl
=
The good one makes an
adventure to defeat the bad
one and get the girl
There are lots of fights
etc.
There are riddles
Third person story = Third person story
Many different cinds of
heroes
One main hero

16. Tipps for the Future II
• It is time to make the next step in evolution.
• Fairy tale  Fantasy  Realistic Fantasy
• Means:
I. Tell the story in many views (also the „bad guy
view“)
II. The pers
• It is time to make the next step in evolution.
• Fairy tale  Fantasy  Realistic Fantasy
• Means:
I. Tell the story in many views (also the „bad guy view“)
II. The persons in the Fantasy book shoulden‘t belive in magic
III. The fantasy-creatures should be legendary instead of daily life
IV. Don‘t be so afraid to let main carecters die (I was never in
fear, who will survive in a fantasy book, because actually you see
it (Main character: survive; unimportant charecter, who have no
reason: die))

17. Tipps for the Future III
V. Seperate from all the standards.
VI.Invent new cinds of characters.
VII.Make the characters deep. Each one!
VIII.Make the reader think he would walk throught a
world, where he can take every diversion into a place
you haven‘t wrote about yet and find something there.
IX.Make long storys without a real ending (give each
chapter a „hightlight“ otherwise it will get borring)
X. Make the fights reallistic. (One man can defeat many
enemys, but shure not more than two dozen)
XI.Describe also the ugly things.

18. Tipps for the Future IV
-The Aim
You see it‘s much more like in the real world, much
more reallistic. But why? It‘s a fantasy-book. Fantasy
lifes from unreallism! Thats right and I don‘t want
realistic fantasy. But let‘s go at the beginning: You
read fantasy actually, because you wish something
so interresting could happen to you (Of course
without all the hurt and victims etc.). And if the
magic is there, but nobudy believes in magic, it could
be our world, so maybe you are the hero you wish to
be. Once you will find the magic and be the big hero!

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