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Probably one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, Poul Anderson's take on fantasy comes from a time when The Fellowship of the Ring was only just hitting the shelves. Coming from a completely different tree of fantasy than what we know today, Anderson's world comes from a land where all myths and legends are true and the secret world they reside is under threat from the White Christ. From that comes the elf king and his designs to further his own ends by taking a human child and raising them as his own.
As the story weaves from there, a tragedy, an epic, and a romance all bloom in 300 pages of the book and hook you from the get go. The greatest tragedy of all is the fact that Anderson never followed up this story with the sequel it deserved.
Probably one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, Poul Anderson's take on fantasy comes from a time when The Fellowship of the Ring was only just hitting the shelves. Coming from a completely different tree of fantasy than what we know today, Anderson's world comes from a land where all myths and legends are true and the secret world they reside is under threat from the White Christ. From that comes the elf king and his designs to further his own ends by taking a human child and raising them as his own.
As the story weaves from there, a tragedy, an epic, and a romance all bloom in 300 pages of the book and hook you from the get go. The greatest tragedy of all is the fact that Anderson never followed up this story with the sequel it deserved.