tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post5803311785813348792..comments2024-03-11T16:29:13.619-05:00Comments on Lingwë - Musings of a Fish: The road not taken ... yetJason Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05809154870762268253noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post-53414420238161148452009-08-26T08:46:35.908-05:002009-08-26T08:46:35.908-05:00Hi, TH. I got your email and will reply separately...Hi, TH. I got your email and will reply separately. In the meantime, yes, sadly some of the links to photos of various sites along Alderly Edge are now broken. Unfortunately, that happens all too often with Internet content.Jason Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05809154870762268253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post-51188858862320724262009-08-26T02:12:06.534-05:002009-08-26T02:12:06.534-05:00I have sent an email to you care of visualweasle@y...I have sent an email to you care of visualweasle@yahoo.com. I hope you get it. I have asked some questions re the links in this post.<br /><br />I found your "Northern Mythological Traditions in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen" at Journey to the Sea.<br /><br />My email address is damask@iprimus.com.au<br /><br />I wish to ask you about "The Moon of Gomrath" and "The Dark is Rising" quintet.<br /><br />Kind regards<br />Thoth HermesIbis-Headhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10316173393980476892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post-90713398696064664202007-06-01T16:33:00.000-05:002007-06-01T16:33:00.000-05:00Maybe I should mention two additional maps, which ...Maybe I should mention two additional maps, which I haven't seen, but which would bring in more of the Brisingamen locale, perhaps; Pathfinders 741 (which includes Wilmslow, to the north of the Edge), and 776 (Congleton, south of Macclesfield).<BR/><BR/>I think of Weirdstone as what someone (might have been David Daiches) called a "topographic romance," which dates back anyway to Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped. Perhaps some of John Buchan's thrillers have action that one could trace in real places. It's even possible that the terrain of Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male could be traced... I don't know. <BR/><BR/>But as for fantasy - - well, Richard Adams's Watership Down is a real place (but not much of the area in countryside any more, I guess), and his Plague Dogs travel over real terrain. I wonder if the children's book The Little Grey Men by Denys Watkins-Pitchford (beautifully illustrated in black and white by the author) is set in a real location? Perhaps not, but it has the feeling of love of real English countryside.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15470446384416001132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post-30374027645312908492007-06-01T10:04:00.000-05:002007-06-01T10:04:00.000-05:00Thanks, Dale; and for anybody else reading along, ...Thanks, Dale; and for anybody else reading along, I should have mentioned that I got most of the links in this post from Dale in the first place. I love maps myself (like Bilbo), so I should try combining a reading of the book with a reading of the map, as you've described doing. In fact, in that sense, the Ordnance Survey map sort of becomes part of the paratext (and more specifically, the peritext) of <I>Weirdstone</I>.<BR/><BR/>A combined book/map reading might be the next best thing to actually visiting Cheshire. That's not likely to happen soon; and besides, the first time I <I>do</I> get to England, I'll be hunting bigger game anyway (e.g., The Eagle and Child).Jason Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05809154870762268253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post-31625892813684443742007-05-31T22:01:00.000-05:002007-05-31T22:01:00.000-05:00Use Ordnance Survey Pathfinder Map #759 (Macclesfi...Use Ordnance Survey Pathfinder Map #759 (Macclesfield and Alderley Edge) to race much of the movement of Colin and Susan in The Wierdstone (2.5 inches=1 mile).Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15470446384416001132noreply@blogger.com