/lit/ - Literature

>>14873048
>What are the main aspects of sword and sorcery?
What differentiates it from epic fantasy or traditional fantasy is the focus of it. It's not about matters that concern the entire world or even grand struggles, but the immediate and personal heroism of the individual.
>What is it that makes sword and sorcery enjoyable, and if not enjoyable, what makes it not?
It's very raw and the action has high impact, the undiluted high adventure of the stories is what makes them enjoyable. It's all very unpretentious and masculine. Due to their structure they're also almost incapable of being bloated unless the writer is truly terrible.

This is also why you might not like them, in a way they are often simple and if you're used to ten doorstoppers telling one continuous tale then their more compact format might not be very appealing.