{"id":36482,"date":"2019-03-04T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T20:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=36482"},"modified":"2019-03-04T09:29:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T20:29:20","slug":"on-supernatural-underground-now-i-kick-off-the-year-of-romance-in-fantasy-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2019\/03\/04\/on-supernatural-underground-now-i-kick-off-the-year-of-romance-in-fantasy-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"On Supernatural Underground Now: I Kick Off The Year of Romance in Fantasy Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-28238\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Supelogo_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Supelogo_2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Supelogo_2.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2019\/02\/04\/on-supernatural-underground-now-a-theme-for-2019-the-year-of-romance-in-fantasy-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I signalled my decision to make 2019 the Year of Romance<\/a> (#YOR) on the <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supernatural Underground<\/a> by talking about Romance in Fantasy Fiction (#RIFF.)<\/p>\n<p>Friday being the 1st of March, I kicked the series off with Post the First, titled:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/romance-in-fantasy-fiction-lord-of.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Romance in Fantasy Fiction: <em>The Lord Of The Rings<\/em> Effect<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>In some ways it may seem an unusual place to start when the theme is romance, especially when you consider this paragraph from the lead-in:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36483\" style=\"width: 128px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36483\" class=\"wp-image-36483 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aragorn-and-arwen-118x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aragorn-and-arwen-118x150.jpg 118w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aragorn-and-arwen-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aragorn-and-arwen.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 118px) 100vw, 118px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-36483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not quite like this in the book&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>&#8220;The reason I want to start with LoTR is because it&#8217;s so hugely influential, particularly in the epic fantasy subgenre. And yet it&#8217;s also a story in which romance is almost entirely missing-in-action\u2014a trend that has come to characterize the epic fantasy subgenre as a whole.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I hope, though, that once you read on you&#8217;ll agree there&#8217;s not only method in my madness, but my rationale may even be rational. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy the read, please pass the word along. If you prefer more romance in your Year of Romance, then I hope next month&#8217;s book and post will be closer to your aspiration. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I signalled my decision to make 2019 the Year of Romance (#YOR) on the Supernatural Underground by talking about Romance in Fantasy Fiction (#RIFF.) Friday being the 1st of March, I kicked the series off with Post the First, titled: Romance in Fantasy Fiction: The Lord Of The Rings Effect In some ways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36486,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36482\/revisions\/36486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}