I confess I didn't know about this particular genre. As a cataloger, I'm a big fan of what we call controlled vocabularies, but 'low fantasy' immediately conjures up the fantasy equivalent of 'light romance.' Easy read sure, but basically 'smutty lit with a magical twist'. So yeah, any term that causes that level of confusion should be avoided! I suspect some troublemaker once said "Well, there's 'high fantasy' so we NEED to have 'LOW fantasy.'" I should see what kind of mischief I could get into by promoting 'medium fantasy.'
That's hilarious! Though "middle fantasy" just means, obviously, that it covers only Middle Earth lore, canon, and fan fiction. Nothing else. "Middle fantasy" did make me laugh hard!
I confess I didn't know about this particular genre. As a cataloger, I'm a big fan of what we call controlled vocabularies, but 'low fantasy' immediately conjures up the fantasy equivalent of 'light romance.' Easy read sure, but basically 'smutty lit with a magical twist'. So yeah, any term that causes that level of confusion should be avoided! I suspect some troublemaker once said "Well, there's 'high fantasy' so we NEED to have 'LOW fantasy.'" I should see what kind of mischief I could get into by promoting 'medium fantasy.'
You're gonna laugh, but I've seen that term flowing around, except they called it middle fantasy.
That's hilarious! Though "middle fantasy" just means, obviously, that it covers only Middle Earth lore, canon, and fan fiction. Nothing else. "Middle fantasy" did make me laugh hard!
Because what does that even mean?
Right? Sounds like they just can't commit. lol