Electric Literatureasked John Darnielle , Isaac Bashevis Singer / ballad maker with the Mountain Goats and author of Wolf in White Van , to find fault a script to talk about . And Darnielle chose The Worm Ouroboros , a 1922 fantasy novel by Eric Rücker Eddison that ’s one of the precursors to Tolkien .
Darnielle grant a brief synopsis of Eddison ’s novel :
It ’s a definitive quest narrative — there ’s an evil to destroy , and four baronial warriors take to the high sea and rough terrain to run into and defeat it . It all takes place on a distant major planet where monsters range and thaumaturgy holds sway .
And he talks about why he bond with fantasy novels as a youthful reader :
I aligned with fantasy as a young science fabrication / fantasy reader — I care the fluffy stuff . unicorn , dragons . distance was nerveless but mythical creatures , magic , whizz , verbalize trees — that was what inspire me when I was ten , eleven , twelve yr old . I put that stuff aside when I began to have Pretensions — when I became a Serious - Minded Young Man — which I do n’t rue , it ’s great to go through phases . But I ’m glad as a grown - up to have come back around to magic stuff , magic is really such a wonderful idea … .
Magic I reckon for me is kind of personal . Like , as soon as magic is in play , then I am hold permission to imagine a different earth , one in which wizardly affair might happen — one where maybe I get some legerdemain to wield if I ’m lucky . Where cool stuff might pass off at any given moment , cool stuff you would n’t even guess at . And for as long as the story holds , I ’m kind of living in that globe .
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