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Jul. 12th, 2015 01:15 pmSo once upon a time a young Canadian philosophy student named Guy Gavriel Kay got hired to help Christopher Tolkien sort out the Silmarillion. Then he went home to Canada, became a lawyer, and decided to write an epic self-insert trilogy in which a bunch of Canadian law students encounter EVERY RIDICULOUS FANTASY TROPE that the Silmarillion contains, thrown into a blender with some Welsh mythology, some Arthuriana, some Dorothy Dunnett, and basically everything else that GGK ever encountered and thought was kind of cool.
The result was the Fionavar Tapestry. It is hugely dramatic and deeply ridiculous and tropetastic up the wazoo and I love it with a GREAT AND TERRIBLE PASSION.
Anyway it struck me recently that it had been about ten years since I reread the trilogy, and that I had never really written here very much about it, and all of a sudden both of these were things that I needed to do IMMEDIATELY.
...we're gonna start with The Summer Tree, since if I try to do all three at once this is going to take a million years.
( Please bear in mind that I genuinely love these books a lot )
The result was the Fionavar Tapestry. It is hugely dramatic and deeply ridiculous and tropetastic up the wazoo and I love it with a GREAT AND TERRIBLE PASSION.
Anyway it struck me recently that it had been about ten years since I reread the trilogy, and that I had never really written here very much about it, and all of a sudden both of these were things that I needed to do IMMEDIATELY.
...we're gonna start with The Summer Tree, since if I try to do all three at once this is going to take a million years.
( Please bear in mind that I genuinely love these books a lot )
