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Originally Posted by Owna
This is kind of hard to explain but ppl didn't have the same standards as ppl do now you know we know more stuff now and newer kind of thinking creativ and shit  diffrent possibilities... |
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Originally Posted by Owna
Well its actually just logic im not saying the books are bad or anything like that dont get me wrong there they are just more evolved into more fantasy? i dont know if that described it better.[...]
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These seem like very strange things to read on a thread about fantasy. Maybe you should check out some ancient mythology, or even just take another look at the fairy tales you must have heard as you grew up. Fantasy has been around forever, it's just been called different things.
Writing styles have changed over the generations, and readers grow to have different expectations as to how a story will be told. As a result it can be easier to appreciate a story that is told in a way that has become familiar to you. This doesn't just apply to fantasy, much the same is true for all art forms.
It's tempting to argue that readers have become more credulous, that we are more willing now to accept wild jumps of the imagination, but it's harder to accept such an argument when you look back over some of the stories of the past. What has changed, perhaps, is that we now more readily recognise these things as fantastical, but still we read and enjoy them.