Fantasy Literature Involves Magic or Other Supernatural Powers

Fantasy is a genre that usually involves the magic or other supernatural forms and can take place in mythical or imaginary worlds as the backdrop of the plot, theme, or setting. A popular example would be J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and his The
Lord of the Rings trilogy. The fantasy genre is distinguishable from the science fiction and horror genre by its overall theme, despite the fact that the three do overlap.

Fantasy, as with other forms of speculative fiction, involves actions and events that cannot occur in reality. In many instances, these actions and events are explained by means of divine intervention, magic, or other supernatural forces such as the case in the popular Harry Potter series. In works of fantasy, the entire story might take place in a fantasy world completely different from our own. In these worlds, their laws of nature may permit magic, or even permit dinosaurs to exist and evolve to the point of speech as in the popular novel series Dinotopia by James Gurney.

In fantasy, one main characteristic that defines the genre is that the story's setting often differs from our own universe as a result of magic or other abnormal phenomena. This principle is often seen in children's literature such as the works written by Dr. Seuss. However, many consider children's literature as a completely separate genre from fantasy.

The fantasy genre began perhaps with the Epic of Gilgamesh and the earliest written documents known to man. Whenever fantasy began, its elements of mythic events, and other magical elements have define fantasy as well as its subgenres and established some of fantasy's most celebrated works as literary classics.

These works include:
The Odyssey, Beowulf, the Arthurian Legends, as well as many fairy tales.

In fact, any literary work that includes fantastical adventures, brave heroes and or heroines, deadly monsters, magical creatures and beings as well as mysterious realms are fantasies.

Even before Homer pinned the Odyssey, popularity of the fantasy genre was already firmly set, and has continued to increase even today. The evidenced of this can be seen by the best-selling status of the Harry Potter series, as well as with Brian Jacques's Redwall series and the film adaptations of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

As long as mankind has an imagination and dreams of mistrial reams, the fantasy genre will remain popular.
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