![]() ![]() ![]() Wikipedia has this to say: Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, remarked that: And that’s the difference between Tolkein and Garner - the latter sets his tale in a real place, includes maps even, and the protagonists are human children, aided and abetted by dwarfs and a wizard. Weirdstone is based on a myth the author was very familiar with, since the setting is his home, Alderley Edge, in Cheshire. ![]() Tolkein’s The Hobbit had been published a few years previously and while there are echoes of that magnificent tale, they are merely echoes of classic folk story memes, referenced in Joseph Campbell’s The Power of Myth. ![]() I’m pretty sure I must have terrified them because it’s a really terrifying story, vividly and expertly told. I didn’t read The Weirdstone of Brisingamen as a child, but I’m pretty sure I read it aloud to at least one class of nine and ten year old children in the 1970s. It was purchased, according to the inscription on the inside cover, at Southend Market in July 1975 by the young man whom I would later meet, marry and eventually divorce. The copy I read is old and falling apart, its pages brittle and yellowing. The perfect book for a late December sick bed. ![]()
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