The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen

Elvedans · 01-21-2003, 04:59 PM

My Dad used to love the Weirdstone of Brisingamen when he was little so he bought it for me quite a few years ago. I really loved it and found it so magical that i read it time and time again. But then I dicovered Tolkien and now have the problem that when ever i try to read TWOB I find myself feeling homesick for Middle Earth! I wish I didn't coz I really love that book but you have to admit there are so many similarities between them: Wizards, dwarves, goblins, elves, a magical piece of jewellery, a dark lord and a black shadow! The list goes on and on ! Does anyone else feel the same way?

sun-star · 01-30-2003, 06:02 PM

I had the same experience, and when I discovered Tolkien I felt it sort of completed the picture of all the fantasy books I'd read before, including the Weirdstone of Brisingamen. There are loads of similarities between LOTR and several books, but you just have to try and enjoy them as separate creations. Difficult I know

Miranda · 01-30-2003, 06:09 PM

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Originally posted by Elvedans
My Dad used to love the Weirdstone of Brisingamen when he was little so he bought it for me quite a few years ago. I really loved it and found it so magical that i read it time and time again. But then I dicovered Tolkien and now have the problem that when ever i try to read TWOB I find myself feeling homesick for Middle Earth! I wish I didn't coz I really love that book but you have to admit there are so many similarities between them: Wizards, dwarves, goblins, elves, a magical piece of jewellery, a dark lord and a black shadow! The list goes on and on ! Does anyone else feel the same way?

Sounds good babe! Can I borrow it? Please, I won't yell Grishnakh at you for a whole evening if you let me!!!!! Mx

Elvedans · 01-31-2003, 10:54 AM

Sure honey I'll bring it in on Monday! Enjoy Macbeth if you get there! Sean Bean - phwew!

Miranda · 02-01-2003, 04:28 PM

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Sure honey I'll bring it in on Monday! Enjoy Macbeth if you get there! Sean Bean - phwew!

Thanks darling! Yeah got to London okay! AND SEAN WAS GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mx

Elvedans · 02-01-2003, 04:55 PM

*sly laugh* he he I can imagine!

Miranda · 02-02-2003, 10:41 AM

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*sly laugh* he he I can imagine!

Imagine away!!!! When he took his shirt off- MIAOW! I was in seventh heaven, was a case of move over Orli! And that accent- *sigh* never thought I could fall in love with a Sheffield accent but combine it with Shakespeare and bam! Anyway back to the point of the thread- checked out a synopsis of your book online- sounds very, very good. Its first on my list to read now, even though I have a stack of books piled up in my room! Mx

Elvedans · 02-02-2003, 02:31 PM

You might get the same homesick feeling that i got. I found some more similarities: Entmoot-Svartmoot, Lady of the wood who gives gifts, Lady of the Lake who gives gifts, Svarts, Orcs, I'll stop there coz i don't wanna give away the story!

Miranda · 02-03-2003, 06:13 AM

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Originally posted by Elvedans
You might get the same homesick feeling that i got. I found some more similarities: Entmoot-Svartmoot, Lady of the wood who gives gifts, Lady of the Lake who gives gifts, Svarts, Orcs, I'll stop there coz i don't wanna give away the story!

Any characters that resemble my baby Grishnakh? I have to find characters I can do impressions of otherwise ballet on Mondays and Fridays will be boring! Mx

Elvedans · 02-03-2003, 05:34 PM

I dunno bout Grishnakh but the Svarts DEFINITLY look like mini Gollums! Have fun reading it, tho you might not like it.

Draken · 02-03-2003, 08:39 PM

This a private thread or can anyone join in?

Miranda · 02-04-2003, 05:04 AM

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This a private thread or can anyone join in?

Of course anyone can join in! So long as you stick to the point of the thread- what was that exactly! Do wicked Grishnakh impressions! Go to elementary ballet! Or have an unhealthy obsession with Sean Bean!

Mx

Elvedans · 02-04-2003, 03:03 PM

Yup it's a public thread - it's just that nobody seems to wanna join in! Anyway, i would have thought you'd have had enough of our strange conversations!!!

Miranda · 02-07-2003, 04:59 AM

Elvedans this book is so good darling!!!!!! Do you want me to bring the Silmarrillion in for you on Monday, hard going but worth it in the end, get passed the first to chapters and its great. Ballet tonight my little Grishnakh! Fun, fun, fun! Mx

Elvedans · 02-07-2003, 04:53 PM

Ooh yes please it sounds great! I hope you've cheered up a bit now, you seemed so depressed earlier. I told you you'd like the book(I thought I should at least write one snetence sticking to the subject of this thread!)

Miranda · 02-07-2003, 06:29 PM

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Ooh yes please it sounds great! I hope you've cheered up a bit now, you seemed so depressed earlier. I told you you'd like the book(I thought I should at least write one snetence sticking to the subject of this thread!)

Feeling a little better but you know how it is! Will talk to you more about that on Monday when I can have a good cry. Will now go and bury my head in your fantastic book and lose myself in another world. Oh well TTT tomorrow night- will forget everything and focus on the lovely Legolas. Mx

Elvedans · 02-09-2003, 04:33 PM

Hey I just noticed that sunstar posted at the beginning of this thread. I think we scared her off. Wait a minute i'll try calling her. Sunstar! Sunstar! SUNSTAR WHERE ARE YOU?????

Miranda · 02-09-2003, 07:10 PM

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Hey I just noticed that sunstar posted at the beginning of this thread. I think we scared her off. Wait a minute i'll try calling her. Sunstar! Sunstar! SUNSTAR WHERE ARE YOU?????

You're mad!!! Think we scared Draken off too! I love your avatar btw- you'll have to come over and show me how to put one on myself, I want to put one on of either Jonny as Tugger or my one of Chris in Starlight! Didn't see TTT in the end, was sold out so I stayed at home like a saddo instead! Mx

Elvedans · 02-10-2003, 04:34 PM

I don't think ANYONE wants to talk to us any more

*sobs uncontrollably)* Waaaaaaah!!!!!Nobody loves me !!!!!!!!!!!Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh hhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

Miranda · 02-10-2003, 05:12 PM

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I don't think ANYONE wants to talk to us any more *sobs uncontrollably)* Waaaaaaah!!!!!Nobody loves me !!!!!!!!!!!Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh hhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE YOU!!! Its like dancing today, no-one wanted to be involved in our scary conversation then- think they get scared when we mention the words Grishnakh or Legolas! Mx

01-21-2003, 04:59 PM	#1
Elvedans Diamond Of The Night Sky Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Old London Town (Well somewhere near there) Posts: 366	The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen My Dad used to love the Weirdstone of Brisingamen when he was little so he bought it for me quite a few years ago. I really loved it and found it so magical that i read it time and time again. But then I dicovered Tolkien and now have the problem that when ever i try to read TWOB I find myself feeling homesick for Middle Earth! I wish I didn't coz I really love that book but you have to admit there are so many similarities between them: Wizards, dwarves, goblins, elves, a magical piece of jewellery, a dark lord and a black shadow! The list goes on and on ! Does anyone else feel the same way? __________________ I see a little silhouetto of a man. Scaramouche scaramouche will you do the fandango? Thunderbolts and Lightning, very very frightening me!

01-30-2003, 06:02 PM	#2
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I had the same experience, and when I discovered Tolkien I felt it sort of completed the picture of all the fantasy books I'd read before, including the Weirdstone of Brisingamen. There are loads of similarities between LOTR and several books, but you just have to try and enjoy them as separate creations. Difficult I know __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

01-31-2003, 10:54 AM	#4
Elvedans Diamond Of The Night Sky Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Old London Town (Well somewhere near there) Posts: 366	Sure honey I'll bring it in on Monday! Enjoy Macbeth if you get there! Sean Bean - phwew! __________________ I see a little silhouetto of a man. Scaramouche scaramouche will you do the fandango? Thunderbolts and Lightning, very very frightening me!

02-01-2003, 04:55 PM	#6
Elvedans Diamond Of The Night Sky Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Old London Town (Well somewhere near there) Posts: 366	sly laugh he he I can imagine! __________________ I see a little silhouetto of a man. Scaramouche scaramouche will you do the fandango? Thunderbolts and Lightning, very very frightening me!

02-02-2003, 02:31 PM	#8
Elvedans Diamond Of The Night Sky Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Old London Town (Well somewhere near there) Posts: 366	You might get the same homesick feeling that i got. I found some more similarities: Entmoot-Svartmoot, Lady of the wood who gives gifts, Lady of the Lake who gives gifts, Svarts, Orcs, I'll stop there coz i don't wanna give away the story! __________________ I see a little silhouetto of a man. Scaramouche scaramouche will you do the fandango? Thunderbolts and Lightning, very very frightening me!

02-03-2003, 05:34 PM	#10
Elvedans Diamond Of The Night Sky Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Old London Town (Well somewhere near there) Posts: 366	I dunno bout Grishnakh but the Svarts DEFINITLY look like mini Gollums! Have fun reading it, tho you might not like it. __________________ I see a little silhouetto of a man. Scaramouche scaramouche will you do the fandango? Thunderbolts and Lightning, very very frightening me!

02-03-2003, 08:39 PM	#11
Draken Elf Lord Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Durham, England Posts: 694	This a private thread or can anyone join in? __________________ I'm beset by self-doubt ....or am I?

02-04-2003, 03:03 PM	#13
Elvedans Diamond Of The Night Sky Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Old London Town (Well somewhere near there) Posts: 366	Yup it's a public thread - it's just that nobody seems to wanna join in! Anyway, i would have thought you'd have had enough of our strange conversations!!! __________________ I see a little silhouetto of a man. Scaramouche scaramouche will you do the fandango? Thunderbolts and Lightning, very very frightening me!

02-07-2003, 04:59 AM	#14
Miranda 'Bohemian princess of Covent Garden Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The Mill Posts: 544	Elvedans this book is so good darling!!!!!! Do you want me to bring the Silmarrillion in for you on Monday, hard going but worth it in the end, get passed the first to chapters and its great. Ballet tonight my little Grishnakh! Fun, fun, fun! Mx __________________ There's only us, there's only this, forget regret or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.

02-07-2003, 04:53 PM	#15
Elvedans Diamond Of The Night Sky Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Old London Town (Well somewhere near there) Posts: 366	Ooh yes please it sounds great! I hope you've cheered up a bit now, you seemed so depressed earlier. I told you you'd like the book(I thought I should at least write one snetence sticking to the subject of this thread!) __________________ I see a little silhouetto of a man. Scaramouche scaramouche will you do the fandango? Thunderbolts and Lightning, very very frightening me!

02-09-2003, 04:33 PM	#17
Elvedans Diamond Of The Night Sky Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Old London Town (Well somewhere near there) Posts: 366	Hey I just noticed that sunstar posted at the beginning of this thread. I think we scared her off. Wait a minute i'll try calling her. Sunstar! Sunstar! SUNSTAR WHERE ARE YOU????? __________________ I see a little silhouetto of a man. Scaramouche scaramouche will you do the fandango? Thunderbolts and Lightning, very very frightening me!

02-10-2003, 04:34 PM	#19
Elvedans Diamond Of The Night Sky Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Old London Town (Well somewhere near there) Posts: 366	I don't think ANYONE wants to talk to us any more sobs uncontrollably) Waaaaaaah!!!!!Nobody loves me !!!!!!!!!!!Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh hhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! __________________ I see a little silhouetto of a man. Scaramouche scaramouche will you do the fandango? Thunderbolts and Lightning, very very frightening me!