the terms are meaningless and just exist for gatekeeping and drawing lines between respectable and genre pulp, is not worth worrying about.
Eh, not really. Both high and low fantasy have examples of pulp, but high fantasy is much more associated with pulp than low. When it comes to big capital L Literature, low fantasy has Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, and Chronicles of Narnia. High fantasy has Lord of the Rings and Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea novels, but is generally more pulpy and less “respectable” acclaimed literature.
