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Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery
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Growing Up Metal: The Story Of A Fan Who (Kind Of) Rocked
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Sword & Sorcery's Affinity with Heavy Metal (Rogues in the House podcast)
A couple weeks ago I got the opportunity to join the Rogues in the House podcast to talk about the intersection of heavy metal and sword-and-sorcery, Flame and Crimson, and Growing Up Metal.
It was a great conversation and as usual I had a blast.
That podcast is now out. Check it out on YouTube.
I've written about the symbiotic relationship of sword-and-sorcery and heavy metal before. Many, many meta
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2026: Ah, God, what a book. A staggering work of genius. All these knights travelling the world, hitting each other over the head with swords. And not only " Read more of this review » |
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“His essay “Epic Pooh,” originally published in 1978, skewered Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Richard Adams (author of Watership Down) for, among other perceived offenses, writing the equivalent of coddling, consolatory, nursery-room tales for grownups, stories that reinforced the paternalism of the establishment: I suppose I respond so antipathetically to Lewis and Tolkien because I find this sort of consolatory Christianity distasteful, a fundamentally misanthropic doctrine. … It is moderation which ruins Tolkien’s fantasy and causes it to fail as a genuine romance. … The Lord of the Rings is much more deep-rooted in its infantilism than a good many of the more obviously juvenile books it influenced. It is Winnie-the-Pooh posing as an epic (126–127).”
― Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery
― Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery
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“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
― The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
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