June 20th, 2008, 12:16 AM
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Re: Epics, Sagas, Fantasies, Mythos, Legends, Nati
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HoneyBadger said:
I'd really like to see something based on Lord Dunsany's "The Gods of Pegana", "Time and the Gods", "The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories". Is anyone else familiar with them? I've got a lot of interest in these "pre-Tolkien" fantasy authors, and Lord Dunsany's maybe the best of all of them.
As much as I enjoy Lovecraft's works, I hate to see him overshadow so many other authors at this time-not that he doesn't deserve the credit for being a huge influence as a writer-but there's a huge body of work that doesn't have anything like the popularity of the C'thulhu Mythos-even Lovecraft's Dreamlands cycle is comparatively little known.
Aside from that, he had his own influences, and Lord Dunsany was one of them.
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Yes, I've read the King of Elfland's Daughter, which is an incredible book, and the Book of Wonder. I would love to read more, but his other fantasy is extremely hard to find.
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