Thoughts on fantasy books

[Billnew]

I love reading fantasy books. Probably because they can never come true, good or bad.

But I noticed a pattern in fantasy writing.
The novels are all epic. Some start out small, but eventually the majority turns to; the fate of the world/mankind hangs in the balance.

There has to be some goal, but it doesn't have to be world destruction or domination. Stories can still be good, even though the main character doesn't save the world from demons, devils, liches, or disease, and get the world famous beautiful lady in the end.

Remember, other types of writing succeed even though the world isn't about ready to collapse.
It could be city in danger, region in danger even, but the fate of mankind being in danger in the majority of books?

My writings tend to be more individual characters doing intersting things in a region. Facing conflict of individual/family proportion. The biggest influence is a rich baron from a distant land, and I don't even give him any lines. The poor baron is much more interesting, and more down to "earth".

Sci fi does tend to do this too. Star wars, the fate of the universe is in one young mans hands.
MY recently finished peice is about a simple elven boy that suddenly finds he has an ability that he hates, and must change his life to learn to control it. He moves to a big city to a academy for the gifted, small town boy walks into large city chaos, along with his "gift".
Even the city isn't the Crown city.(Poor baron mentioned above)
Cultures of races mixing, meeting the special creatures in nature(of the fantasy world), just getting around the area, and just showing how life would be different if...

Is it just me? Or is this what others see too?

This is a short story I wrote after seeing the picture(the link below the story.)
Dragon's are always welcome. by ~SeverinR on deviantART
Nothing epic. Simple life in and around a tavern, in a town in the middle of a blizzard

 

[Johnnybabe]

I tend to write the small-scale sci-fi/fantasy stuff as well, because I dont really see why I need to write these epic stories all the time: surely there's only so many "epic" stories that can be told.

 

[Billnew]

I tend to write the small-scale sci-fi/fantasy stuff as well, because I dont really see why I need to write these epic stories all the time: surely there's only so many "epic" stories that can be told.

If the so many down on their luck adventurer/thief/ orphan saves the world, it loses its greatness.
Once in several generations will world appocolypse be confronted. If it happened more often, it might suceed.

But there is so much more to write about. Personally, I am happy that other fantasy writers concentrate on world destruction or domination,
it leaves the entertaining tales of high adventure for me to tell.