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Fantasy Deserves More Credit Fantasy novels are in a sub-genre of romance. The fantasy genre was given it’s title to supply the storyteller with an idea that entertains and enables him/her to put an ideological story across that the audience will conform to. Fantasy stories provide the reader with a story of an unlikely hero and their quest, an escape from reality into a world that includes magic, obstacles, deception, and mystery, and in doing so, provides an opportunity for the reader to develop a creative mind. Two examples of these fantasy novels are The Hobbit and The Neverending Story. The Hobbit revolves around the hero character Bilbo Baggins. However he did not show his hero personality until later on in the story. At the beginning, Bilbo was introduced as weak and defenseless. He kept to himself most of the time because the other hobbits in Hobbiton thought he was queer. “Still it was probable that Bilbo, although he looked and behaved exactly like a second edition of his solid and comfortable father, got something a bit queer (italics mine) in his make-up from the Took side, something that only waited for a chance to come out” (Tolkien 13). He showed no qualities of a traditional hero character of a rom