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Wait - you rank Advent Children above Lord of the Rings?
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I re-read her first post and I think I understand what she meant.
She was referring to a world where Magical Systems are fairly banal or in everyday use, ubiquitous and common. The world is largely based on our own, except that some people can use magic. Advent Children was probably an easy way to refer to that. Since Lord of The Rings is very high fantasy and the Maxtrix is very science fiction, she wanted to write something closer to Modern Fantasy.
There was a book I read a few years back, called War For The Oaks, by Emma Bull. Here's the summary:
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Quote:
Eddi McCandry has just left her boyfriend and their band when she finds herself running through the Minneapolis night, pursued by a sinister man and a huge, terrifying dog. The two creatures are one and the same: a phouka, a faerie being who has chosen Eddi to be a mortal pawn in the age-old war between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. Eddi isn't interested--but she doesn't have a choice. Now she struggles to build a new life and new band when she might not even survive till the first rehearsal.
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It was placed in the category of Urban Fantasy, and rightly so, since it was definitly modern day, but at the same time, with Fantasy elements.
I think what Meia was looking towards was something closer to... well, given that Arthur C. Clarke just celebrated his 90th Birthday, I think it would be appropriate to quote from his "Third Law":
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.. That is to say, sometimes Magic is not always as it appears.
For more information, check
THIS page (Which is where I also got the quote ).
Of course, I could be completely off target, so grain of salt and all that.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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