!bookworms !ringbearers a thread on works of fantasy and mythology. Either to discuss plot, characters, motivations or give recommendations if you have them.
Also, as we now have a ping for Tolkien legendarium's fans I would like to mention I'll create one for ASOIAF as TWOW gets closer to publishing, I'll call it asoiafcels, or maybe create the ping this year because we don't know if TWOW will ever get published 
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The fantasy genre is a dead end. You know what you call modern day fantasy? Science fiction.
They both spring from the same fountain, the desire to imagine a world based on man's weakest abstraction links thinking about what other cool powerful world's could exist.
Today, creatures like Dracula, Hercules, Witches, are no longer relatable to modern audiences due to the fact that the US military from the beginning of the 20th century could destroy all of them with ease.
Fantasy genre was set to be a dead end the moment middle income nation tech could destroy 99% of fantasy creatures without issue. After that fantasy falls outside man's capacity to maintain suspension of disbelief.
This is the same reason why the X-men and the Fantastic 4 will always sell better than the midnight sons.
Science fiction today hits that sweet spot of turning our brains off while still pretending like "it could totally happen and we just don't know about it" that fantasy once used to.
Mythology opinion:
I like Medusa because she makes men hard as stone as her background lore.
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