For instance, we get exactly one Hill myth (the story of Aerin) and it's the one that happens to have entangled Harry in its trammels.
Which is one thing if the story is, like Alan Garner's The Owl Service (1967), about the consuming and deforming pressures of myth on people, but another if it's just meant to be normal prophecy. (I happen to like The Blue Sword, but I agree that its world feels very much as though it was back-formed from the tropes its author liked best. There's more independent strangeness in The Hero and the Crown. I do like the folklore surrounding the filanon of The Blue Sword, the archers of the trees.)
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Date: 2022-01-07 11:13 pm (UTC)Which is one thing if the story is, like Alan Garner's The Owl Service (1967), about the consuming and deforming pressures of myth on people, but another if it's just meant to be normal prophecy. (I happen to like The Blue Sword, but I agree that its world feels very much as though it was back-formed from the tropes its author liked best. There's more independent strangeness in The Hero and the Crown. I do like the folklore surrounding the filanon of The Blue Sword, the archers of the trees.)