As I was re-reading Alvin Journeyman I came upon chapter 14 "Witnesses" where Alvin is in jail and sings his song. One of the verses he says doesn't fit, from some else's dream or something along those lines.
Alone with my imagining I dreamt the darkest dream, Of tiny men, a spider's sting, And in a land of smoke and steam, An evil golden ring.
This book was written back in '95 so I wasn't sure if I was just seeing things.
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*blink* Jongo, you are aware that the books to which Card is making an homage in that passage existed well before 1995, right? Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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And yes, they are a reference to Lord of the Rings. I thought that was way cool when I read it, too. Posts: 4174 | Registered: Sep 2003
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LOL. But we all know that Middle-Earth didn't exist until Peter Jackson thought it up and made a trilogy of movies about it back in 2001-2003. Posts: 1569 | Registered: Dec 2004
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Definitely an hommage to Tolkien. We who write fantasy are all living in his dream. With Alvin Maker, I'm trying to do for America what he did for England with his trilogy.
Nothing less than hubris, I know.
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quote:With Alvin Maker, I'm trying to do for America what he did for England with his trilogy.
Then you missed the long, ponderous passages explaining in excruciating detail the history of each location and individual and why the world got to be the way it is.
Which is kind of a shame, because when I saw Seventh Son on the shelf and picked it up to see what it was about, I was already interested from reading the stuff on the back--but when I opened up the front and saw the maps, I knew right then and there that here was a book I had to buy, that very moment. So I'm dying to know how the maps came to be that way. I know you're not into writing extraneous stuff that doesn't affect the story and could be removed without a loss--but if you slipped a teensy bit of extraneous history into the last Alvin Maker book, I wouldn't complain. . . .
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Tom, I am aware that the books existed, just hadn't read Tolkien's books until after reading Journeyman for the first time.
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I would love a book like that. Many, many times I have felt teasted when reading the Alvin books, because I wanted to know more about the history of that world.
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I'd enjoy reading a collection of short stories set in various times and places in that world.
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