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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Hobbiton...no wait....
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Quote:
~Rosie~
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Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Lyonesse
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Rosie Cotton, the girl in Prydain? It's Eilonwy.
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Hobbiton...no wait....
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Eilonmy, thats it. She was my favorite character in any book...and then came LOTR.
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Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Lyonesse
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Eilonwy is great!
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'Sober' Mullet Frosh
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Queen's
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I enjoyed the Westmark series.
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi
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Eilowny is definatly a fun character, but I still haven't figured out if I liked her having to give up her magic or not. ( oh well, it didn't matter much to her anyway)
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"The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!” |
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: 2nd star to the left.....
Posts: 566
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I've read only the Prydain series ( twice and long ago!) and enjoyed it very much. I have a one volume version from the SF Book Club which I should probably locate and read again.
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi
Posts: 489
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Pyradin books are cool but I only read the last 2 again and again. I think I prefer Westmark.
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"The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!” |
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I Antha
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: You expect ME to know?
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I really liked the Prydain Series. But my favorite book of his is The Iron Ring, I love that book although the Prydain ones are good too.
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Enting
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Calgary
Posts: 78
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I've only read the Prydain series and i thought they were good. Unfortunately, after about ten reads and four years, i wan't to find more books.
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Truest of Friends
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Pennsylvania, but I have a vacation home in the Westfarthing.
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Has anyone noticed the enourmous parallels between the Prydain stories and the LotR?
Just to name characters: Taran = Frodo + Aragorn Gurgi= Sam + Gollum Arawn = Sauron Achren = Gollum Gwydion = Aragorn/Boromir Eilonwy = Arwen/Eowyn [[I can't remember his name]] = Saruman Dalben = Gandalf Math = Denethor CauldronBorn ~ Nazgûl Places: Mt Dragon = Mt. Doom Summer Country = Valinor Caer Dalben = Shire Red [whatever-they-were] = Brown Lands/ Dagorlad And of course the swords. [what's it called?] = Anduril There's enough of a difference, and the storyline is common enough that I wouldn't call them a rip-off. But still the similarities are amazing.
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Enting
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Calgary
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I noticed the similarties also, I wonder which series was written first! It's not that I they copied each other, but it would be interesting to know
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Truest of Friends
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Pennsylvania, but I have a vacation home in the Westfarthing.
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LotR, by about 10 years
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi
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I think the reason is that things from tolkien have sorta leaked into literature as the norm.
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"The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!” |
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Enting
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Grey Havens, Middle Earth, in my own special place, a world unknown and magical, or perhaps of questing and flying like an Eagle with Gwaihir
Posts: 74
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I like to Prydain series best. My favorite was the High King. It was interesting how Taran became King because he wasn't that famous or imortant or of noble blood. It was also set somewhere in welsh mythology wasn't it? Does anyone here know how to spea welsh?I'm sort of learning.
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