Yay yay yay yay yay. The Young Adult Fantasy website which catling and I were working for our class is finally DONE!!!! So go and check it out and play the madlibs :)
I guess you'd have to say he was "pre-classical," i.e., pre-Tolkien and Lewis. Although he did hang out with them a bit -- they thought he was terrible because his fantasy is completely a-moral -- or rather based on Mt.Olympus, not Christian morality.
He wrote some truly amazing scenes -- I've always thought his stuff sould be done as a play or movie.
That time at Paganalia, when you spoke of the satisfaction of "ripping apart a dead animal with your teeth," I thought of an Eddison scene in which the wise wizard character finds one of Lady Fiorina's handmaidens "playing with her food." (She was a lynx whenever she wasn't serving her ladyship :)
Good work, both of you. Give Catling the same regards. I would have put Wrede (Cimorene rocks the casbah!) under 'Modern', if you were putting Pierce there, seeing as Alanna was written before and during the same period; I'd have put someone like Lloyd Alexander as 'Middle'. Ain't it obvious I've been reading since age 2.5 and work in a children's library? And I did sex Madlibs. Great work!
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Eddison
(Anonymous) 2002-05-02 09:37 am (UTC)(link)...But you left out ER Eddison!
I guess you'd have to say he was "pre-classical," i.e., pre-Tolkien and Lewis. Although he did hang out with them a bit -- they thought he was terrible because his fantasy is completely a-moral -- or rather based on Mt.Olympus, not Christian morality.
He wrote some truly amazing scenes -- I've always thought his stuff sould be done as a play or movie.
That time at Paganalia, when you spoke of the satisfaction of "ripping apart a dead animal with your teeth," I thought of an Eddison scene in which the wise wizard character finds one of Lady Fiorina's handmaidens "playing with her food." (She was a lynx whenever she wasn't serving her ladyship :)
Terry Franklin
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I would have put Wrede (Cimorene rocks the casbah!) under 'Modern', if you were putting Pierce there, seeing as Alanna was written before and during the same period; I'd have put someone like Lloyd Alexander as 'Middle'.
Ain't it obvious I've been reading since age 2.5 and work in a children's library?
And I did sex Madlibs.
Great work!