Having Fun With Epic Fantasy Tropes #4: Apocalypse Now…

Now where would we be in epic fantasy without the a really good, no-holds-barred apocalypse—usually in the form of a great, world threatening evil, aka “the Big Bad”, and quite probably with an all-in final battle, aka  Armageddon or Ragnarok.

You do remember Ragnarok from last week right? In case you missed it, Ragnarok is the famed “twilight of the gods” of the Norse myth cycle, with its notions of doom, that profoundly influenced JRR Tolkien, and through the great JRR shaped the epic fanta...