here some great fantasy websites:

Storm The Castle.com - Fantasy and creativity with an edge

Epic-Fantasy.com - website devoted to the genre of epic fantasy

The Fantasy Guide - The complete guide to fantasy on the web

The Heroic Dreams Fantasy blog - daily updates and info on the genre in movies books and more

The Heroic Dreams Forum - Come share your thoughts and opinions on the genre of fantasy

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The History of Epic Fantasy

(The Power of Myth here)

Epic fantasy is as old as the human race itself. We have a fascination with the singular hero rising up against all odds to conquer or unite a kingdom or who embarks on an epic quest. The appeal of the genre is so strong that the oldest known version of any story is that of an epic fantasy called Gilgamesh. It is generally considered by scholars that Gilgamesh did in fact exist and that he was a king of Uruk in about the 26th Century BC who embarked on a quest to find immortality. The Epic of Gilgamesh was inscribed on stone tablets a thousand years before the Iliad was written. If you want to understand and learn about epic fantasy right from its beginning this is the place to start. There is good reason for this story having survived so long. The epic has been recently released in an easy to read and well translated version. For a story like this that was probably told verbally for many generations you may want to consider getting the audio version. To hear this story rather than read it brings a sense of tribal connection.

(1356) the Travels of Sir John Mandeville