Stars Uncounted - Ian's Fantasy Bookshelf
A fantasy author is just another name for one who has a foot within the borders of Faerie
Hall of Fantasy
- Home
- The Spirit of Tolkien
- Types of Fantasy
- The Nine Magics
- Faerie
- I am Ian E.S. Adler
- The Bookshelf
- Hidden Gems
- Song Triad
- Riddle Mastery
- Quotes
- Heroine Archetypes
- Champions of Light
- The Role and Proper Usage of Magic Thingamajigs
- GRRM the Anti-Tolkien
- Rumors of the Wheel
- Misc
- R.I.P.
- Race in Fantasy
- The Power of Names
- LGBTQ+ in Fantasy
- Here Be Dragons
- The Final Lesson
- The History (& Golden Age) of Fantasy
- Fantasy Book Tiers
- Artist vs. the Art
- Magic vs. Mental Illness
- How to make your own System of Magic
- Golden Sun
- Contact Me?
- The Cynnahu Saga
- Winds Untamed
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
I just finished Froi of the Exiles
Monday, August 8, 2022
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
The Rings Of Power - Stories from the Legendarium Featurette
Before people start complaining about them butchering the Second Age, ask yourselves how else they could have done it and be grateful we have this instead of nothing.
Thursday, July 28, 2022
Eragon TV adaptation for Disney+
What are my hopes for the show? Well, every Inheritance Cycle fan knows and tries the forget the travesty of a job Fox did with their Eragon movie back in 2004, so Disney+ knows that taking an artistic license to the plot and characters is not something fans will be forgiving about. Beyond that, since Christopher Paolini is co-writing the series my hopes, like his, are quite high. Luck to them as they bring Eragon & Saphira and all the rest from the wondrous world of Alagaësia – land of the Dragon Riders and the Ancient Language – to the big screen!
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
I just started Froi of the Exiles
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
My father and I have once again finished Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip
My father and I have once again finished Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip.
Her
Gilgameshian epic, this was the book that made us - then (2014), now,
and forever - rank her as a Fantasy author worthy of standing beside
J.R.R. Tolkien, Diana Wynne Jones, The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, and J.K. Rowling. We have not read it since because the book is so
awe-inspiring, so vast in thought, deep in wisdom, eloquent in language,
that one does not read it lightly. But when we learned that Patricia A. McKillip had died we could think of no better way to honor her and all
her works mean to us. To be reminded again of her mighty words that
shape themselves out of fish, poetry, and thorn in a palace hewn out of
stone perched on the sheer edge of the world.
As I said in
2014, so I say again, well done and do well Nepenthe, Tessera, Bourne,
Vevay, Felan, Laidly, and Kane. I will think of you whenever my thoughts
stray over sea and under stone.
Until next time.