Ozoneocean at 9:31AM, March 26, 2020

@Marco- you're perfectly correct. It's just that later fantasy took a medieval approach so that's how we think of it all. Plus the armour and weapons styles in Tolkien (in the illustrations and movies) are medieval.

sphinx8k at 4:58AM, March 24, 2020

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marcorossi at 1:32AM, March 24, 2020

This is a pet peeve of mine: Tolkienìs fantasy isn't medieval, Middle Earth is supposedly pre roman Britain + Ireland (the two islands become separated later in the fourth era). Tolkien said this himself. Howard's fantasy setting is the Hyborian age before the deluge, so it's not medieval either, and most obviously it resembles classical antiquity. Why do everyone assume that fantasy = middle ages? Is this just the long shadow of King Arthur?