Olwe
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Jun 30 2012, 1:48am
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Namárië. . . .
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To me "Northwestern" myth and legend is serious stuff. But in the last decade or so Big Media has simply exploited this hankering of ours, churning out book after book, movie after movie of second-rate other-century, Euro-fairy-themed pulp fantasy. Most is rubbish, some is absolutely frightful. And it won't get better until we do something more serious than spit bile (like I do) across the Internet's electron cloud. The only thing I can think of doing is to boycott it. And so I will.
I've gotten together my "corpus" of writing at my site hercynia.net for free perusal -- and with that I'd like to bid you all a fine farewell. I simply find no further use in hanging out on the Internet, or the library, or the box office to get some sort of quasi-medieval EFM (Euro-fairy mysticism) fantasy fix. Nor do I really want to be any part of Big Media fantasy as a supplier. This is why my writings are free and for the taking. If you give my stories a read, you'll be very pleasantly surprised. But now I'm through writing -- and posting. I quit.
In closing, I'd advise people to get copies of Tolkien, Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell," and Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series ("Wee Free Men," "Hat Full of Sky," etc.), and read them one more time . . . then go out into the wild places and seek the fairy realm/ME/Valinor yourself. Then perhaps write diaries and journals (pen and paper), or even poems, about what happens. After all, it is all inside you waiting to come out. I'm going to do this, and I have a feeling I'll get much further along than by always waiting for Big Media to tickle my fancy with their big fantasy machine output.
I'm not saying that there cannot be any "commercial" EFM fantasy. I'm just saying Big Media has driven this iteration off a cliff. Time to reassess, reconsider, do some self-examination. Not to sound like a preacher, but EFM fantasy must be "born again."
My email is on the hercynia.net site.
Namárië!
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