Fantasy - Epic Sword and Sorcery

      I was around 8 years old when I developed a keen interest in the fantasy genre. Inspiring films included:  Conan (the Barbarian and the Destroyer), DeathStalker, Beastmaster, Dragon Slayer, Clash of the Titans - the original, Legend, Red Sonya, and Highlander to only name a few. I know Clash is based on Greek mythology, but I felt it fit in well with that era's line of fantasy films. I found those films inspiring and craved more. My brother and I watched many of those on the big screen. When VCRs and movie rental stores exploded we haunted every mom and pop video store in search of all of the fantasy films we could find. Yes, I've seen an ample amount of fantasy genre films: the good, bad, terrible, and worse than terrible. It was good fun.
       In middle school and high school I discovered many books and authors that hooked me. One of the first books was of course, The Hobbit. Then the first Shanarra trilogy by Terry Brooks, then I tackled The Lord of the Rings for the first time. It transformed my whole view on the genre. LOTR made me look at fantasy in a whole new light. I guess this was the period in my life I developed a love for the written epic fantasy. That's not to say that I didn't familiarized myself with a little sword and sorcery. I did stumble upon Moorecock and Leibert, but unfortunately didn't spend much time reading their works at that point in my life. Although I later, in my college years found Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman and it piqued my interest once again in the Sword and Sorcery realms. To make a long story short, I've bounced between both forms of the genre throughout the years. I've always been more drawn to the epic fantasy, but still I crave the fast action adventure of sword and sorcery.  Hence, I came up with the title of this blog. Epic for epic fantasy, and Sword for sword and sorcery. I love them both. To be continued...