- abandoned mine
- abduction
- abyss
- alternate dimension
- ancient
- ancient city
- ancient sword
- archery
- archive
- armor
- avalanche
- based on novel
- battle
- battle axe
- betrayal
- birthday party
- blizzard
- blockbuster
- bravery
- bridge
- broken sword
- campfire
- castle
- cave in
- compassion
- cornfield
- council
- courage
- cousin cousin relationship
- crow
- crushed to death
- cult director
- cult favorite
- dancing
- dark fantasy
- dark hero
- death of friend
- death of hero
- decapitation
- decoy
- demon
- doom
- dwarf
- eagle
- eavesdropping
- echo
- elf
- enchantment
- ensemble cast
- envelope
- epic
- evil wizard
- eye
- falling from height
- famous line
- famous score
- ferry boat
- fictional language
- fictional war
- fight
- fireplace
- fireworks
- flaming sword
- flashback
- flash flood
- forced perspective
- forest
- fortress
- friendship
- gardener
- giant bird
- gift
- goblin
- good versus evil
- healing
- hero
- heroism
- hidden door
- hobbit
- honor
- horn
- horse
- horseback chase
- immortality
- impalement
- inn
- interracial friendship
- interracial love
- invented language
- invisibility
- knife in thigh
- last stand
- leaving home
- lifting adult in air
- lifting someone into the air
- loyalty
- macguffin
- magic ring
- male bonding
- middle earth
- mind control
- mirror
- monster
- moth
- motion capture
- mountain
- mutant
- no opening credits
- orc
- part computer animation
- part of trilogy
- password
- pendant
- pipe
- premonition
- prologue
- promise
- quest
- rainstorm
- redemption
- reluctant hero
- rescue
- rescue from drowning
- riddle
- ring
- river
- rowboat
- ruins
- saving the world mission
- sea monster
- secret passage
- self sacrifice
- severed arm
- severed finger
- shot in the forehead
- skeleton
- slow motion scene
- smoke ring
- spear
- speech
- stabbed in the arm
- stabbed in the chest
- stabbed in the leg
- stabbed in the shoulder
- stabbing
- staff
- staircase
- statue
- subterranean city
- swarm tactic
- sword
- sword and sorcery
- sword fight
- telekinesis
- telepathy
- temptation
- tentacle
- tobacco
- tomb
- torch
- torture
- tower
- traitor
- troll
- tyrant
- uncle
- underground city
- underwater
- village
- vision
- voice over narration
- volcano
- warrior
- waterfall
- well
- whip
- wizard
- wraith