Fantasy Cliches

I just came across an interesting article from a gaming site: Overused Standards of Fantasy Literature. Embarrasingly, my projected novel (which I will return to this summer) contains no less than five of these overused features, notably:

1. The Great Disaster/Cataclysm/Doom, etc.
2. The Ancient Super-Advanced Society
3. The Ancient Scholars' Language
4. The Quest for the Uber Artifact/Weapon
5. The Conquering Horde.

On the other hand, there are no knights, mages, elves (unless you count the bad guys as quasi-elves) or crystals.