Fantasy tropes
Fantasy tropes are a specific type of literary tropes that occur in fantasy fiction. Worldbuilding, plot, and characterization have many common conventions, many of them having ultimately originated in myth and folklore. J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium (and in particular, "The Lord of the Rings") for example, was inspired from a variety of different sources including Germanic, Finnish, Greek, Celtic and Slavic myths. Literary fantasy works operate using these tropes, while others use them in a revisionist manner, making the tropes over for various reasons such as for comic effect, and to create something fresh (a method that often generates new clichés).
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literary tropes
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fantasy fiction
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Worldbuilding
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myth
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folklore
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J. R. R. Tolkien
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legendarium
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The Lord of the Rings
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variety of different sources
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Literary
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revisionist
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cliché
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Fantasy tropes
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