[quote=@Ellri]
Nice tags. Not entirely sure on the description for the high fantasy tag. Not all high fantasy is about defeating some great evil.

Might be better to have its description be based around the magical content, which is usually fairly significant in high fantasy.
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[quote=@Mahz]
Haha, I couldn't even find two definitions online that agreed with each other. Even the wikipedia page meanders on and on. :lol
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My understanding of 'high' versus 'low' fantasy is how much a part of the mainstream world the supernatural is, though that is only part of the reckoning some others make. 

In a high fantasy setting, such as Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, magic is an accepted and widely understood part of the world whereas in Robert Howard's Conan series (which establishes the Low Fantasy genre in a lot of ways) magic is the exception to the rule of the setting; it pops up out of nowhere, and few characters in the world actually believe in it and those that see it are traumatized by the encounter and the cognitive dissonance (or just gobsmacked before they put it to the sword in Conan's case.) George R.R. Martin straddles some of the divide in the sense that his world is a world where magic and the supernatural make a comeback from a long slumber after establishing a gritty human element. 

Rowling and Lewis, for example, fit into High Fantasy as it is a world within the real world, but where magic and the supernatural in general are commonplace and accepted parts of that world within a world.

The reason why definitions are hard to really find is because there's still a lot of wiggle room on what constitutes high and low fantasy. I take it as 'if you opened a crypt and a spirit came howling out, how would your mates react to that story in a pub?' But that might be oversimplifying the divide.