5/10/2023 0 Comments Titus groan goodreadsMoorcock is very creative, but sometimes his pen moves faster than his mind. However, I found the magic in the Elric books somewhat more interesting than the plot or characters. His Elric saga has been very influential, combining a mythic fantasy based upon quantum mechanics with an antiheroic protagonist. Moorcock is an inventive and ever-changing fantasy author who was contemporary with Tolkien, and who is still writing today. Any author of fantasy should read him so they can learn that a book can only be as magical as it is strange, only as fantastical as it is unpredictable. The Sword of Welleran and Others is a collection of some of his best short stories. The plot of The King of Elfland's Daughter is fairly straightforward, a recognizable British fairy tale, but dreamlike and hallucinogenic, the very inspiration for Lovecraft's brand of alienated horror. His magic is a living thing, possessing its own will and unfathomable laws, twisting pervasively through the warp the story, leaving nothing untouched. Dunsany is one of the masters of the British fairy tale, able to use tone to create a pervasive world of strange enchantment that grasps at the reader's soul. These were the magnificent dream visions that Lewis and Tolkien tried to recapture in their more stolid works. It is this gestational period from which all modern fantasy, consciously or unconsciously, draws. The authors of the late Victorian period in England marked a high point for sophistication and inventiveness in fantasy.
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