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Willelm Heall
@LiamQDH
writer, editor, wannabe philologist. I do bookish videos on YT @ Liam’s Lyceum. Bringing Sword & Sorcery to the denizens of the internet
Middangeard Katılım Temmuz 2012
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This science fiction thrillers opens with an impossibility--and android has been possessed by a demon. A priest and neuroscientist struggles to come to grips with this while he struggles with his faith and his own past, and tries to save the world.
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GM! It's release day for my friend @andrewgillsmith's new edition of Our Lady of the Artilects! An archetypal @incensepunk novel that explores the spiritual aspect of the technological. Edited by @DavidJohnButler with a foreword by bestselling author Christopher Ruocchio!
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@SCWKorsgaard @BattlebornMag I have a story in mind, actually.
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@RebellionJason There's one review on "BookTube," it's from me lol
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How do I engage with 'BookTok' and get my novel Lord of Blackthorne some attention over there? Actually what is Booktok anyway and where is it?
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@tolkienthoughts Author of the century? Has the fella ever heard of PROUST???
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So many people these days cannot imagine a world before modern screens. Tolkien was voted author of the century in poll after poll before Peter Jackson filmed a single LOTR movie
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@rootsofday Thanks for sharing some thoughts, happy it was enjoyable
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I recently read "Dreamer Awake" by @LiamQDH and was at first distracted by its seeming appeal to the "modern audience".
It does intentionally portray various kinds of evil, both within the heart of the protagonist, and in the actions observed in others, but the mastery of the language is fantastic.
The premise was also very engaging, harking back to both the mystery of a Conan-like fantasy world, and to the Cyberpunk brutality that inspired it. If the superficial impression doesn't get to you, then it's an entertaining adventure.
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My work on chapters 6-12 of the Curse of Imnir are becoming more and more aligned with Epic poetry, as my Arthurian and Beowulf poems were (links below for the uninitiated). I really like writing these kinds of stories in verse. It's like a drug for the imagination.
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Coincidentally, because I did not remember it was Zelazny's birthday today, I have a video out today on a short story by Zelazny.
BattlebornMag@BattlebornMag
Let us remember the great Roger Zelazny, born on this day in 1937. Be it for his CHRONICLES OF AMBER or DILVISH THE DAMNED, few authors of sword-and-sorcery or heroic fantasy ever did so with the touch of surrealism and myth Zelazny did. Do you have a favorite Zeleazny story?
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From Winters in the World, to Conquered, and all the blog posts, Eleanor Parker does a good job digging out the wisdom in Old English texts. I very much look forward to reading this!
Uppsala Books@UppsalaBooks
We are delighted to announce that a new book from the brilliant Eleanor Parker (@ClerkofOxford), entitled "Hoarded Gold: A Book of Old English Wisdom," will be published by Uppsala Books later this year! For more information, visit: uppsalabooks.com/hoarded-gold
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@rootsofday I got out my copy of Anderson's, and Grimm's a few days ago to read to the little ones
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I grew up with some of Anderson, but for some reason I was always a bit dismissive of him. But since these posts I've begun thinking about it, and yes. I need to get my own copy now.
Megha@megha_lilly
"The movie the Little Mermaid tells little girls that the ultimate proof of True Love is a kiss. Whereas Andersen’s tail tells girls that a man might want to kiss a woman all the time and still he does not truly love her until he binds himself to her in the sacrament of marriage. This is a message that very few girls are given today and this is also what makes his fairy tale ring truer than the watered down and modernized Disney adaptation." An excerpt from my free essay
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@rootsofday @writriverdale There's a lot of death and grief within, there's a lot going on though
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I'm still digging further in when I get the chance, but as I see it, and as they were used, they were theological texts that gave orientation. They were primarily masculine for this reason, because the fish rots from the head down, and men have quite a capacity for getting stuck in some or other form of childhood, so they needed something to give them structure and identity in this form. The portrayal of the battles is often a way of describing spiritual and natural phenomena through the lense of human experience. One sees this in the metaphors used for both gods and men throughout. But, because I am also still a bit of a child, I think Hector is better than Achilles 😛
Also I believe there is a reliable historical component that simply springs from man's relationship to memory and emotion.
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After reading both the Iliad and the Odyssey, all of these "masculine" accounts that post about the epics don't really have much insights beyond Achilles is cool and war is glorious.
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I have good friends who were big Redwall fans growing up. I need to read those at some point, I think. My impression is that I am missing out on something potentially brilliant.
Megha@megha_lilly
It's called hand-drawn by artists actually trained in the fundamentals of art and storytelling.
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It was a good time talking with the Witan, though we did not elect any king (well, maybe we did elect Tolkien as king of fantasy fiction), we did advise at least
D.J. Butler -- Sci-Fi / Fantasy Author and Editor@DavidJohnButler
Tonight at 9:00 pm Eastern / 7:00 pm Mountain, High Low Brow goes live: youtube.com/watch?v=FUak8S…
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@DavidJohnButler Should be good. I think you would like Michael Drout’s book “The Tower And The Ruin”
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Tomorrow night at 9 eastern / 7 mountain, I'm going to attempt the first High Low Brow livestream.
I've invited some Booktube luminaries, real rowdies.
We're going to talk about Tolkien.
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@rootsofday I haven't seen War of the Rohirrim but I actually quite enjoy Dracula Untold. I remember watching it with my childhood best friend and my twin brother right before all went our separate ways for missionary work
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And, I think War of the Rohirrim would have benefited from this kind of a plot, rather than the confused vaguery it ended up as.
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This movie also fits into this chain of reflections for me. A guilty pleasure, and, to be honest, I'm not sure what was bad about it ... though I vaguely remember it not being well-received. It has the same general premise, though.
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I've taken a bit of time to sketch out a rough draft of the tale of the cursed voivode. With all of the dark Draculaean retellings that I am coming across when I look into the popular culture, though, I am wondering if it wouldn't be a better story, if he weren't cursed... If the surroundings are so Gothic already, why not let the sun shine outside the window, and let the stain glass do its work? But the heart of the story will still be that of sanctity aface of depravity. A story of sanctification. For this I like the figure of Michael the Brave, yet periodically, I prefer the 13th century, due to the historical murk that comes with the Mongols. For now, the story has gained some substance and form, which is good. I am also wondering if the cursed aspect hasn't already been done in the Curse of Imnir to a satisfactory degree.
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